In Michael D. Riley's Ashore Here, here is the point where ocean and sand, both in flux, meet, and then, shifting, meet again. On the beach at Cape May or Ocean City, the poet meditates, physically and spiritually suspended between the timeless cycles of ocean and the very much timed and created world he inhabits for merely his lifetime. --Andrew Hudgins, author of After the Lost War and Ecstatic in the Poison.