Family Portrait: Day at the Beach

father floats 

on his back spouting

the surf into the curbed sky
his treasured trunks puffed with captured air

sister sinks

and they drag her by

the hair to the beach to kiss

her blue mouth into a borrowed flame

brother fends

for himself spurning

the ferris wheels turning to

mothsoft towels their lubricious machines

mother sails

for the horizon

the oblivious smack slips

off of the dizzy lip of the whirled