Beach Grandma

When the weather warms the air enough

and the sun shines with such intensity that tomatoes taste like its yellow rays

I know that summer has arrived.

 

 

And with it

I am baptized again into every body of water I am near.

Like a mermaid

I will take up residence in its depths

and make the shore my bed.

 

 

I watch my grandchildren slip the surface to their own underwater

adventure so naturally that I wonder

if they remember the hidden world within their mothers.

 

 

Like my mother before me, I am

The Beach Grandma

and my magic is held in every diamond that glints on the water.