alone;
bucket and spade.
In her bucket, a starfish, seaweed,
a dozen alarming crabs
caught with string and a mussel.
Don't move.
Trow.
Go to the sound of the sea,
don't try to describe it,
get it into your head;
and then the platinum blaze of the sun as the earth
seemed to turn away.
Now she is kneeling.
This is about something,
Harder.
The rеd spade
This short sentence can be interpreted literally. The child is playing. But it may also be the old woman in the child who sees herself worshipping the experience of the small girl she was.
Beachcomber