Poem, 1923: A crowd of people swimming in the water and walking through the sand on Sunset Beach in Treasure Island, Florida

Author

• Thomas Hallock

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Publication Date

4-17-2025

Abstract

1923: A crowd of people… in Treasure Island, Florida is a modified pantoum (poem) that frames the Floridian beach as a space often thought of as frozen in time and insulated from grim consequences. The reality of what can happen at the beach, however, imbues the poem’s tone with the weight of the knowledge that even this conceptual slice of veritable paradise must adhere to the rules of the world beyond the shoreline.

Keywords

Beaches

Extent

2 pages

Geographic Location

Treasure Island Beach (Fla.)

Language

English

Digital Date

2025

Media Type

Poems

Format

Digital Only

Type

Article

Recommended Citation

Hallock, Thomas, "Poem, 1923: A crowd of people swimming in the water and walking through the sand on Sunset Beach in Treasure Island, Florida" (2025). Creekshed: Ekphrastic Writing with the Archives. 9.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/creekshed_ekphrastic/9