Surf Fishing

Today we were on the beach for the fifteen minutes of sunshine that we've been having each day. We spent a pleasant afternoon surf fishing, but didn't bring in anything for supper.  Surf fishing differs from sitting on the beach because of the possibilities. My observations:

Weather on paper

Weather outside our window.

Not at all the same.

The pleasures of surf fishing:

Sitting still and waiting

Looking toward the vast

empty sea and sky

Worries of life behind me.

Waiting, not in idleness

but with hope and expectation

The music of the surf filling me

Thinking of no more than

 the shape and color of surf foam.

In the stillness finding creation.

Seagull and Me

Wait resolutely

Good morsels will be coming

To the patient ones.