color in motion

sea water aggravated by stubborn basalt

gray-green whipped to blue-green

veined with foam white smashed

against purplish brown to billow

into misting columns rising

collapsing into whitened channels

in rock vulnerable from melting

cooling, now attacked again and again

with each wave clawing at its surface

as it recedes gray-green again with

bits and specs of earth ensnared

and yielded to mother ocean

creative builder as well as destroyer