Forgotten Coast

I thought I'd paddle
a forgotten coast
Just to feel sand scrape bottom
as I shoved off
Watch the shoreline
from two feet off the water
Having seen it all
from thirty thousand feet

Flying too high above
leads me to faulty vision
Sometimes the flash of water
running down a blade
The ache across the shoulders
is all there is to know
The only thing that's learned
from being here

And here is where I'm at
trying to squint a bit
Into a sun that blinds me
just before the time to set