Sea Breeze Magic
Sounds of traffic, Humans being Busy
mix with the night’s first stir of sea air
and together
become coastal melodies behind Marconi’s
jazz mastery:
Kessel’s ‘Spontaneous Combustion’, with
waves.
Night’s magic, to soothe summer’s heat.
You sleep; I watch as your dream wraps
around you
and carries you along within its magic.
The jazz orchestrates
each time I touch and your every turn
with cool blues and greens
sea tones gently softened by the salty
zephyr.
I watch; you smile in your dream and your
breath lilts ‘love’.
Perhaps you sense me, feel me so close
beside you.
Perhaps it is I that walks beside you in
your soft dream
along glistening evening sands, arm in
arm.
But perhaps not.
Am I ever to know, do I dare to learn
into whose arms sleep takes you? Are your
completely mine
or is there a stranger, just beyond
another soul come into your dreams to
color your sleep
and bring a taste of drama to night’s soft
carriage.
Then let this traffic purr.
Bring in the wisps of night air
and I will believe it is the Sea that has
come to visit you, this night.
Dream deep, my love, of sea breeze magic
and blue-green jazz.
Smile, sigh, and stay wrapped in your mystery
beside me.
I want you sea breeze fresh
fully alive and unsullied by my close and
clinging desire.
I’ll not touch enough to awaken you, not
in tonight’s mystery dream
not with this lilting background of the
sea, the traffic and the jazz.
I shall not steal your fire.
Michael Theroux
Michael Theroux writes from Northern California. His deeply published career has spanned botanist, environmental health specialist, green energy developer and resource recovery web site editor. Entering the creative writing field late in life at 72, Michael is now seeking publication of his cache of art writings which include two novels and perhaps 400 poems and short stories. Some of his shorter works may be found in Down in the Dirt, Ariel Chart, 50WS, Academy of the Heart and Mind, CafeLit, Poetry Pacific, Last Leaves, Backwards Trajectory, Small Wonders, The Acedian Review and the Lothlorien Poetry Journal.