Beach Glass Comments

This, is itself a little treasure washed up on the beach of poetry..

Vivid imagery to me and I see the sea talking to me.

Clampitt thinks of the beach glass she finds more as detritus than as treasure, as evidence of gradual dissolution. Even the celebrated Chartres cathedral is simply a sand castle and will eventually go back to gravel, is being turned over gravely and gradually as any human dream might be, any structure designed by the human intellect. Ironically, among the beer bottles and wine bottles are bottles of Phillips Milk of Magnesium. Though like lazuli, the semi-precious blue gemstone, it is of course mere trash - as are turquoise and amethyst. Murano, which will also return to gravel, is an island (consisting of seven islands) off the coast of Italy, famous for its glass-making. The ocean (and Time) will treat it with random impartiality. shuffling its milleniums. It's all trash to Time.

I love walking on the beach and finding little treasures like the ones described here. I especially liked the lines They came from sand, they go back to gravel. Relaxing!