day-dream

   

I lidded my eyes
and found myself abruptly
a wide-winged pelican
descending in the glide of a dozen
drafting one for another;
our leader timed it
to skim a perfectly cresting wave-
as we reached the glassy comber
sailing mere inches
above its sunsparkled face
the sea collapsed with a gentle crash
& up we swept into the sky....
I opened my astonished eye.