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Watershed

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September 2024, no. 468

Watershed

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September 2024, no. 468

In times of war

At high tide there’s a breakaway from pounding surf.
Some of the ocean has tired of the incessant battering
and steals over the beach away from the refractory swell.

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Comment (1)

  • I am loath to comment on a poem, but this strikes me as extraordinarily good and I have returned to it often over the course of the month since it appeared.

    Poetry so often refers to the location in non-specific terms: Settings are rarely located or locatable on a map. It feels entirely appropriate here. Despite the location not being named, I feel like I know the very place; while the clever naming summons still other thoughts entirely.
    Posted by Patrick Hockey
    27 September 2024

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