Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Beach Buddha by Daniel Skach-Mills

Robert Carnes


Beach Buddha

Cannon Beach, Oregon


I like to think 

waves aren’t thinking—

but are, like us,

being thought up

endlessly 

onto this shore

where sunlight illumines

the depths in all of us

into clear 

shimmering 

sea-through 

translucence



Enjoy more posts by Daniel Skach-Mills HERE.


Daniel Skach-Mills

A 2026 Pushcart Prize nominee, Daniel Skach-Mills’s poetry is forthcoming in The Pensive Journal and Wild Roof Review. His book, The Hut Beneath the Pine: Tea Poems, was a 2012 Oregon Book Award finalist. A former Trappist monk, Daniel lives with his husband in Portland, Oregon, where he served for 15 years as a docent at Lan Su Chinese Garden. He was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in 2024.


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