Most excellent is dignified leisure.
                                                           —Cicero


   We were watching the waves in their folding
from seats on the sand
   where the sea came boiling
then withdrew from the land.
The dolphins like curds
    popping up in a soup
on a glittering loop

   and ships going out, and ships coming in—
and then a woman came darting
   out of a car pulled over be-
hind us, pulled off her pants
and undid her top, and kept on at top speed
    naked and fulgent and diving,
and the cruising pelicans did not veer

and her breasts were flying
    and the froth became her hair.