Veils of water as two breaking wavefronts meet, Cove Beach, Año Nuevo State Reserve, California. As a wave develops, it curls. Eventually, the curvature becomes too great to support the water at the top of the wave. Water pours down from the top forming a mini-waterfall, like a veil of water droplets covering the incoming wave. This breaking up of the wavefront then migrates outwards until the whole wavefront ends up in a wall of splash. This photo shows the moment when two breaking wavefronts collide, one forming from the left and going rightward; the other one forming from the right and going leftward. The detail of the wave is shown clearly, backlit by sunlight: photo by Wing-Chi Poon, 19 October 2007
chased
that last lost fraction, fragment
of the past, redacted
turning inward, spent,
splits, then
cuts away
from the action, again -- that's
where the line breaks
back
upon itself, crested
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