“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the salt sea.”
“A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?”
“The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.”
“The salt of his tears tastes like the sea and I don't see the shore.”
“The sea pokes the horizon like the tongue of a parched man, blue corroded by salt.”