The Tilted Sea

In his dream the sea began to tilt to one side in the far distance. As if the sun was setting heavier in that quadrant of the horizon than in another. He wondered, if this continued, would the waves stop advancing against the shore, shifting instead to that downward side of the sea, taking the tide with them? Seashells would no longer wash ashore and there would be no reason to walk and wonder along the water line. The sea’s mysteries will have found other places to hide, and eventually there would only be desert where the sea once surged.