High Tide

somehow this became about egrets
in the South Carolina surf
i will never understand
how folks live in this heat
i wont even bother to get
to the dragonflies and the pace they keep
in time for the weddings
with strange confessions from
whomever I saw at the reception
where a higher power can restore us to sanity
practiced in the art of misdirection
and then who knows
who may come to my own defense
in the morning after