Edge Places

I tried going to the edge places

but found no solace there
just a fugue in my heart song.

I cannot relax into
this moment.

I can only find unwelcome company
the hulking weight
that strains the rattan furniture
placed upon the burnished
porch floorboards.

Summer descends behind
the beach dunes
the seagrass brittle.

I know why the gull
screams.