See how everything is a secret?
his dying mother says to him in the dream.
She had taken the oil, greased her body
and was ready to swim far out,
all the way to the end.
So this is what they mean
by vacation, he thinks to himself,
awake now, looking at the sea.
So this is what they mean:
green, turquoise, silver, the ruin
and rise again of waves,
colors dying inside other colors.