beach tree  a carpet of sand at your feetyour leaves look like a beautiful brainyou have been considering this coast  for a lifetimei love watching your colours change  your thinning and thickeningand I wonder  what do you think of the boats?  what do you make of summer's pleasures?  what is your favourite season    the best time of your life    and the greatest thing you have seen?what is your dearest memory?  is it the ducks at the foreshore this morning  or the wild geese flying overhead last night    perhaps another tree now lost from sight?as my life returns to dream                    i consider the beach tree and me--------------------------------------Music: Silent Ridge, Kim Rogers