St.-Tropez

Glass is sand in heat,
Like beach.
A beach is sand as hot
As glass.
A TV screen is heat on glass
Like sea.
A TV sea is sand on screen
Like glass.
Silicon is glass from sand
That screens
The sea and heat
With glass.
So boats and sky and sea
And glass
Are figments of TV and sand:
We see
The sky through heat and glass,
Each made out of each,
When we take pictures at the beach.

2.

Glass is sand in heat,
As beach is carbon
Grown too hot for feet,
Glass blown and bleached
By coaxing sky,
Stone, coal, sand
Machined and leached
By hand and bone to tie
Ravines and land to air,
To join the eye to earth,
Lean with glare
And dearth, and yet
Attached to sun
By the summer in between,
Death attached to birth
By sky’s transparent screen,
Scud and sea
That wave and meet,
Until we see
The land through glass and heat
Fused from silicon,
Each made out of each,
When we take pictures at the beach.

3.

Glass is sand in heat,
As beach is carbon
Grown too hot for feet,
Glass blown and bleached
By coaxing sky,
Stone, coal, sand
Machined and leached
By hand and bone to tie
Ravines and land to air,
To join the eye to earth,
Lean with glare
And dearth, and yet
Attached to sun
By the summer in between,
Death attached to birth
By sky’s transparent screen,
Scud and sea
That wave and meet,
Until we see
The land through glass and heat
Fused from silicon,
Each made out of each,
When we take pictures at the beach.

4.

Glass is sand in heat,
Like beach.
A beach is sand as hot
As glass.
Silicon is glass from sand
That screens
The sea from sky and heat
With glass.
A TV screen is heat on glass
From sky,
As TV sea is skylike screen
On sand.
So screen and sky and sea
And glass
Are figments of the sand and sun—

We see
The sky through glass and heat,
With eyes that screen the sand,
Each made out of each,
When we take pictures at the beach.