seascapes from time exposed

water hangs low,

rarely falls.

here, our trees and hands

fall victim to it,

vouchsafed by it.

victims, because it erases

cicadas’ footprints

and the army ants’ prey.

peculiar though, this erasure—

with wider aperture

humidity lifts and stays,

footprints are removed

and yet remain overhead

in extended exposure.

a suspension—

retaining multitudes

that ought to slide

like moments off the hands

you live through.

seize this history

in salt and landscape’s

italic interstice: hold.