Miracle Strip

from Miracle Strip by Matt Layne

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Music:
Isaac Griffin-Layne & Ned Mudd
Tramping Down the Strip

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Miracle Strip

Three teenagers stand in the bed of a Ford
cruising slow as a shark in warm water
down the Strip of Panama City Beach.
Backs, red as the flag scrawled across their hood.
Whistles and whoops as they roll through
a school of girls outside Alvin’s Island.
Pink mopeds flash in and out of the slow current
of cars and trucks. Horns honk and Skynrd blares.
The air is heavy with humidity and salt and curious desire.
The moon floats in the violaceous sky, a pale yellow dot
against the blaze of the Vomatron’s lights.

Out past the Sandpiper Resort,
arm in arm, a couple skirts water’s edge.
Noctiluca blooms green starlight
in sand pressed by their bare feet.
A bale of turtle hatchlings totter
to their first dark gulf. Further out,
a nudity of jellyfish caress one another
beneath the waves. Their tendrils weave
an ecstatic orgy of forgiveness.

Forget the metaphor for now,
but carry this in your pocket
with the silver coin your father gave you:
love the world completely, love the world
through sorrow, shame, and trembling joy,
and when your love is over,
give the world away.

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from Miracle Strip, released August 31, 2022
Music:
Isaac Griffin-Layne & Ned Mudd
Tramping Down the Strip

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Matt Layne Birmingham, Alabama

Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet's nests and looking under rocks since he was knee-high to a peanut peg.
I reckon you oughta check him out.