untidaled

I slept until the high tide came
and floated me away like
a satisfying moment;
a wave swept me over,
slid me back up ion the beach
and left me face down in thin water…
I breathed in small clumps of bubbles,
let rivulets of sand run between my fingers
blinked tiny drops of water
from my eyelashes;
another sweeping hand of water
dragged me back into the roiling waves
until I was sucked out to sea…
ropes of kelp circled my head, my neck
my shoulders
my waist
I drowned naked,
believing I could breathe
underwater.