You cannot know her until she closes for the season, until the traffic lights turn to blinking orange strobes down the wide path of the boulevard. You cannot know her until the seagulls regain their kingdom, until the beaches are reclaimed by sandpipers scurrying along the shore.
You cannot love her until you experience the ocean’s anger, until you watch her shores battered by wave after restless wave. You cannot love her until you witness the union between ocean and bay.
August 31, 2016
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