Impossible Defiance

The wind blew, the ocean surged, and a ripple stirred.
The ripple built to a swell. The swell gathered speed and rose into a wave.
Greedily sucking water back from the shore the wave doubled, then tripled in size.
A curl formed, the top of the wave outracing the concave belly.
Bait fish sparkled silver in a graceful free fall from the rushing ridge.
The tip of the curl hung in impossible defiance of gravity.
Wind swept spray from the watery ridge.
Sun highlighted the shifting patterns of salt -
Mini continents drifting across the deep green.
Then all was erased in a pounding crash of white foam.