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CHRYSS YOST

Carmel

Once again, love forgets to tend its home.
Embarrassing, the edges going soft again,
another castle licked down wave by wave,
Different sand. Different man.

So, two people watch the moon rise on the water.
The sand and the swell and the night spread a blanket
made of diamonds and desire.
She says I love you, words a small Pacific
trying to contain the whole night sky.
Bio: Chryss Yost is the editor of _California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present_ (with Dana Gioia and Jack Hicks) and _Poetry Daily: A Year of Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website_ (with Diane Boller and Don Selby). Her poems have been published in two chapbooks, journals including The Hudson Review, Solo, and Quarterly West, and are widely anthologized. Chryssyost.net
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