Never Seen

Pawley's Island, SC 2007 by Laura Lawless

I have thoughts
that don’t coincide
with the way you
brush lint from
my shoulder.

I could write volumes
on ineptitude
or how my eyes
could never be blue
like the sky.

The blue is inside.
Dark and roiling,
a wave to forever
drown in; a never seen sea,
of course,
but the hint of a
rivulet meandering
along
the stark plains,
its meaning lost
on the unknowing.