A Beach Remembered

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A BEACH REMEMBERED

Nellie Riggs McQuillis

Nellie Riggs McQuillis is a Ligonier (PA) resident and a retired teacher of the Ligonier Valley School District.

I watch the snow pile high its drifts
like dunes of sand beside the sea
and then begin its outline of
each twig and limb of every tree.
The stalks of Little Blue-Stem bend
like sea oats in the ocean wind.
My black “sea gulls” come