ascents and descents

Sea water salt,
my legs, the stairs,
the backward steps
the mass I shed
as I headed
up coves and coves

The descent, wrapped in the
smell of bush
the boat watchers
the sea a stomach
soothing relief or
longer harder my steps

And new shoulders weekends
Make amends, give the blues more than you
Formulated faith, soak it up
Never fail a serotonin shot
Keep face until one too many
and then you'll hear a broken record
of sorry slurs. A broken verse
Nothing new emerged

I'm stuck with paint dry sentiment.
Cemented. Sleep walking through the past.