The Beach...

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
Millie befriended a stranded star
who's 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 alone...

...
For whatever we lose like a you or a me
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.”

-E.E. Cummings