Allow sunlight to project on your closed eyelids. Phantom crowd-waves rock you back and forth, in a circular motion as you tread your sneaks to stay afloat, air-conditioned shores in sight.
Coral reef shop windows display schools of humans darting in and out with paper-bag fins on either side of them. Pastel scales welcome more tropical temperatures, but their most precious plastic scale remains purse-protected and pin-code secure. Lines await them, sale and coupon bait ready for the perfect swipe between register gills or hook by chip reader. Some are biting. Others glide lazily past.
This is the resort of sand-apartments and rebars. Stroll down the paved boardwalk along asphalt rivers were cars float down. Claim a restaurant umbrella to beachwood-bum it out.
Find the buoy’s peace as you get lost in an ocean of people.
Natalie Mather is an undergrad from Cedar Hills, Utah, studying Literary Studies and Creative Writing at UVU. She is currently writing prose poetry and flash fiction. This fall, she will leave for the Study Abroad Program at the BYU London Centre to study linguistics, art history, and gathering spaces.
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