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I wrote this after an early morning fishing trip when two seals swam next to the boat |
| HANDLINING The cape islander gallops head first over giant swells,shivers then rears back to retrieve crumbs of words shouted above the ceaseless mechanical drone as a candy apple flush wriggles under nights blanket setting the ocean ablaze starboard two black pointed heads emerge bobbing,weightless,watching then vanish like dead sailor's nomadic spirits while whiffs of saline musk straddle the air as we pause to toss handlines over the side carol burgess romance |