Undertow
Sandra Marshburn

Postcards that picture Yosemite
with messages saying someone
misses her. A cigar box
full of little bars of soap
still wearing hotel wrappers
name the places my father visited.
And the things I keep:
soap shaped like a shell came from
Orlando. A hunk of blue glass
from the Libby Owens
factory now closed.
This shelf lined with real shells
found on Edisto Beach, "shell capital
of the Atlantic." Press a conch
to your ear and listen
to what the ocean says will last.

ISBN 0-9624453-9-8
21 pages $6