Ephemeral.Taken

The summer sand matted my feet,
the salt stung my eyes.
I floated anyway,
my hair fanning behind,
like a mermaid’s, cast green
by the sun.

Sarah Daly is an American writer whose fiction, poetry, and drama have appeared in twenty-five literary journals including Triggerfish Critical Review, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Ibbetson Street Press, The Seraphic Review, and Superpresent Magazine.