A thousand mussels at the wrack line,<\/p>\n
cracked open at dawn.<\/p>\n
A repast for the gulls.<\/p>\n
Murres eviscerated,<\/p>\n
a murre alone,<\/p>\n
moored in the sand,<\/p>\n
blinking fast,<\/p>\n
not long now.<\/p>\n
Surfers calling it quits<\/p>\n
because the surf is dead.<\/p>\n
A lone crab, barely moving.<\/p>\n
The merciful crow approaches,<\/p>\n
a method in black madness.<\/p>\n
New swallows dip and dive.<\/p>\n
They fly our dream of being alive.<\/p>\n
That smell, that ocean smell.<\/p>\n
It smells like\u2014<\/p>\n
I don’t know.<\/p>\n
We can assume it depends<\/p>\n
on how death recycles life<\/p>\n
this particular morning.<\/p>\n
If I wait here long enough,<\/p>\n
on this salty log,<\/p>\n
the answer may come,<\/p>\n
when the gulls looks at me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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