Artwork Description:
Laguna Beach longing
Laguna Beach, I’m longing for
highways that fade to sandy sidewalks
and sunlight pouring down like golden rain
in metallic hues of bronze and copper
on skin softened by seabreeze and saltwater
waves edged with lace-fine foam
and artists who capture it all
hanging above time-worn leather or galleries with auras of glass prisms and silver chrome
vignettes of gas stations and traffic and crowded oceanside scenes
suspended in time
a sugar cone heaped with lemony gelato made salty sweet with Johnny Rocket’s fries
a girl’s chlorine-bleached butternut macadamia hair dripping in coconut oils and pure light
saturated pastel skies raked with spiderwebbing branches and stormed through with eucalyptus leaves
she’s artlessly hanging of trees and becomes breathless smiles and bruised knees
and one of those artists is brushing gold on plexiglass
and she stands, coral pink flecked palms and sea salt caramel swells and chocolate-coated fleshy masses
I’m longing for
her