showoff storm
showoff storm
watercolor sky
and seascape
changing in the hail
wind gusts causing gulls
to land like drunken sailors
and ruffling tail and wing
feathers as they huddle
on the beach
sudden torrents of rain
beating, roiling sand
beneath the surface
to muddy gold-brown
churning the water
into foam white and gray-green
purple-blue in the shadows
of black-purple-gray clouds