Sunset Calculus
Sit on the frayed axis of coastline
ocean silver flat to infinity
your body the point of a right triangle:
human, horizon, molten sun god.
Watch light slide down
the long hypotenuse into your chest.
Weep for faded day and tally blessings
as they fall to night’s subtraction:
sea foam lace on wet beach slope,
calligraphy of gulls against peony sky,
dead fish at the high tide line, diminished
to a smear of glassy scales and fractal bones,
bell curve of white shell
cupped over a scoop of sand.
