Bright Beach Poem by Jean Bernard Parr

to walk into the beach shop
child
this is what heaven is
child
windmill on stick, the whirling
dazzle, the bin of colours
the rainbow in bits
child,
feast the virgin eye
hurl image to your brain
gorge on shimmering a
glittering
a child,
now
here comes the dark parent
with his dark matter
not for nothing does he wear
Ray Bans
child, break free
asterisk shape
your revolution,
scream the portal
become snow crystal
child
unchain from
summer heat, graze
fields of
glitter, trail bright flowers
that beat with glitter
child, gaze
with discoverers' gaze
untest the test
when one day
you shoulder a pack
eyes you will have
to see only the best