gifts from the sea

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.  (Neil Gaiman)

 

from e.e.cummings:

maggie and millie and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and

milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were

and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles, and

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as a stone

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.