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