Crabwise

I dreamt I was a crab

Soft on the inside, hard on the out

Walking sideways along the beach

One leg never crossing the others

Staring out into the ocean,

At all that is and isn’t and could be and can’t be

And even though my view stayed the same,

A setting horizon in a vast expanse of nothing but waves, I was still moving

Moving along the shore.

I was progressing without even noticing