Why does a darkness magnify

the sounds of waves upon a shore?

Swells that march from some distant storm

are much the same as those I swim,

when sunshine warms and fishes plop.

Yet in the dark the noise they make

is rough, harsh, sinister; crash on ears,

their thunder shakes a small adobe house

and I awake from sleep to speak with them.

 
 

David Garlick, Puerto Vallarta, November, 1999