Song of the Sea to the Shore
by Robert Fanning, published in Aug 2002 issue of Poetry
Unraveling velvet, wave after wave, driven
by wind, unwinding by storm, by gravity thrown -
however, heaving to reach you, to find you, I’ve striven
undulant, erosive, blown -
or lying flat as glass for your falling clear
down: I can’t swallow you. [...]
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