Nauset Light Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Somewhere in ocean, perhaps a thousand miles and more from this beach,
the pulse beat of earth liberates a vibration, an ocean wave...
Once created, the wave...begins its journey through the sea...
It approaches the continent...courses ashore, breaks, dissolves, is gone.
The innermost waters it last inhabited
flow back in marbly foam to become a body to another beat...
So it goes night and day,
and will go till the secret heart of earth strikes out its last slow beat,
and the last wave dissolves upon the last forsaken shore...
HENRY BESTON, The Outermost House
