In the morning
before it rains,
nervous blue water
kisses the sandy shore line
until a dark storm interrupts
this noisy love affair.
Then all is still.
The water sleeps–
its silver face serene.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.