The bones of the sea

A yellow buoy
marks where the  pier
disappeared
after the last quake.
Once,right there,
where the water now
comes up to the knees,
a boy and his mother
surpised themselves
 by truly catching a fish,
and dropped line hook and sinker
in a crevice.
Schools of that fish's progeny
loop through broken slabs
and sunken steps,
in triumph.
me thinks.