Feet In Waves Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Feet in waves

Too early in morning
-after dawn, sun not out
-chill kisses my skin

Facing west
-am aware of the time

Soon will sun
-intrude, interrupt
-my silent solitude

With shoes, off
-and rolled cuffs
-dip bare feet in soft waves

Soft water caresses tired feet
-motherly are the hands that I feel

Thin is air, thick water
-of varied density, surfaces
-line of light breaks and
-magnified are my feet
-enlarged they, appear different
-skin is expanded
-top of feet to ankles
-on top see few hairs
-funny are my toe-nails
-out of shape

Sun in low horizon
-I expect my shadow
-to come soon, very long
-to add paint to canvas
-of the wavy water
- (already is silver)

In my mind, already
-feel seeing best ballet
-stage for dancing waves
-is yellow with some red, and golden
-Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, keep silent
In the box am watching
-Nut Cracker…
-in Bolshoi Theatre
-Mariinsky; in Peter

And can see my voyage
-on the Lake
-in Peru, by Puna
-spread is gasoil in patches
-divided by fine lines
-best ever work of art
-natural and unnatural
-the work is masterpiece in design,

Buckingham comes to mind
-and the rules, and the lives
-most of them brutal
-full of lies

Scattered I see men and women
-here, there, in states
-taken by its Royals

In the waves, a face is reflected
-seems to be Diana's
-see calms eyes
-sort of shy
-shamelessly Charles holds hand
-Camilla's

And birds chirp
-they sing songs of cry:
- "raped is the innocence
-accused not guilty…
-yes, committed crime
-she was forced, encouraged to do so…"

Read the map, see the world
-sun is out "Britain's never sets! "

A warning by the chill on the run:
- "That sun died; is over, comes never …"
-do I pay attention? Attention! Attention!