Sometimes I am a flag of surrender, sometimes an angry wind. I am eager for the moment to start, or straining to spit the bolt out of my mouth. Billow after billow, above, below. I am all of these or none of these. Perhaps I am not sophisticated enough to be a little of each. A gull rolls out of the sky like a small wave practicing for attack. Tail first, an army of sand fiddlers anchors itself in the sand.