Descended to the shore, odd how we left br the young girl with us to herself, and went br straight to examine the stratified cliffs, br forgot her entirely in our interest. br br You marvelled at the shapes the clockwork sea br had worn the stone, talking keenly, until br the pace of this random sculpture recalled br your age to you, and then its anodynes. br br And so you turned, pretending youth, courting br the girl as if you were a boy again, br leaving the wry cliffs to their erosion br and me to my observant solitude.