late in the afternoon,
bathed in sweat and caked in dust,
workers from Myanmar board trucks
and travel from construction sites
to their overnight quarters,
while I float,
suspended under sunset sky,
in the waters
of a sea, dense with salt.
May 14, 2015
on Nai Yang beach in Thailand
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