gangway #8

Jolanta Janavicius
Catching a Wave

© 1998 by Jolanta Janavicius and gangan books australia

Jolanta J.

CATCHING A WAVE

I SLEPT SO WELL LAST NIGHT JUST PUT MY HEAD ON
THE PILLOW AND WAS OFF INTO DREAMLAND AND WHEN
I WOKE UP IT WAS MORNING A MOST BEAUTIFUL SUNNY
MORNING WARM NOT TOO HOT AS YET THE BLUEST BLUE
SKY YOU COULD IMAGINE THE MOST URGENT THING FOR
ME TO DO NOW WAS TO GO TO THE BEACH CHECK THE
WAVES AND RUN INTO THE FROTHING SURF MY MAN GOT
UP EARLY TOO SQUEEZED ORANGE JUICE AND
GRAPEFRUIT JUICE FOR ME WE THEN HOPPED INTO
THE CAR IN OUR SWIMMERS AND DROVE DOWN TO
FRESHWATER BEACH WE SAW BIRDS FROLICKING IN THE
SKY LORIKEETS IN ALL RAINBOW COLOURS THEIR WINGS
SHIMMERING THEIR TAILS SPREAD OUT LIKE A FAN
AGAINST THE SUN OH SO LUMINOUS THE GREENS AND
THE GOLDS IN THE BLUE SKY THE SURF WAS ROLLING IN
IN LONG WHITE ROLLS THE WAVES JUST RIGHT NOT TOO
BIG NOT LIKE FRIDAY MORNING ROARING RUMBLING
TOWARD THE SHORE THE KING TIDE ALL THE BEACHES
WERE CLOSED AND ON AUSTRALIA DAY TOO FLOCKS OF
DISAPPOINTED CITY PEOPLE JUST WAITING FOR THE HUGE
SEAS TO CALM DOWN BUT THIS MORNING OH THIS
MORNING THE SURF WAS ROLLING IN IN LONG SWEEPING
WHITE ROLLS PLAYFUL SPRAY SHIMMERING IN THE SUN I
SHIVERED WITH PLEASANT ANTICIPATION SAVOURING
THE REFRESHING COOLNESS OF THE WAVES WHEN THE
WATER REACHED MY WAIST I PLUNGED INTO A WAVE
DIVING UNDER IT POPPING UP GULPING A MOUTHFUL OF
SWEET SEA AIR THEN WATCHING EVERY ON-COMING
WAVE WITH A HAWK'S EYE FOR THE RIGHT ONE TO COME
ALONG I WAS WAITING FOR A BIG FAT BREAKER WITH
MASSES OF WATER BEHIND IT TO GIVE ME A MIGHTY
PUSH AND WHEN IT CAME I WAS READY I SWUNG AROUND
STRETCHED MY BODY LIKE AN ARROW AND DIVED IN
FRONT OF THE BREAKING WAVE OH EXHILARATION
I WAS RUSHING FLYING TOWARD THE SHORE IN THE
CRYSTAL CLEAR WATERS HAPPY AS A LARK

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