Certainty Evaporates insights harvested on beach visits, each ebb and flow forges new worlds waves sculpt, breathing new life into undefended dunes, glaciers collapse gates of heaven calmly burst, swollen sea belly summons rising oceans flooding us with pure possibilities, yet-invisible embryo is pressing against your diaphragm, breathing the future, a faint fragrance heart wings are wildly fluttering, inevitably unfolding seven generations giggling you and me we shapeshifting with clouds wind sand salt between teeth splendid sky shatters into drizzle, spray, grainy mist ten thousand waves affirm transformation certainty evaporates, curious we remember to be pulsing or how to fulfill destiny morphing into electrical storms, burrowing new channels, listening for revelations patiently, undefined grace being born naked anew a new anew evolving emerging Karina Epperlein, Berkeley, Sept/Oct 2026