RETIRING - Rum Ring Stone:Turquoise and everyone feels a tide

and everyone feels a tide within them

the terraced pools full of opalescent water

The Genie Ring draws you to them

or Cousteau style with wetsuits and knit caps

Gliding through crowds in the streets

RETIRING - Rum Ring Stone:Turquoise and everyone feels a tideEvery night and day there was a discovery, like the time we found the a silk pocket hidden deep in the lining of a thrift store coat. We drank rum gum and limes and examined the lot, putting on records and calling to each other from room to room. Cool marbles, a mahjongg tile, slim coins stamped with words from another country. A scroll of paper rolled tightly and covered in hearts and I love yous in seven languages, a map of the island, another