Mating migrated to the poles:

extremities with freezing layers

of glacial ice melting to swell the sea—

two land masses in motion

heaving for displacement,

feeling the ephemeral frictional force

gained in grinding tectonic plates

of coasts who wear a record of where

wandering worlds came to map a new terrain

onto shores forever changed.

But that sandpaper that honed the shores

came and went with the tides,

leaving new landforms with

capes of occupation and inlets of loss.