Tuesday, July 26, 2011

on the marina

my body had not yet fully woken
when i arrived at the marina,
my lips in a sling, my limbs
like fishing poles lost at sea.

yet soon the marina opened up to me
and my eyes, peeled like ripe oranges,
could not keep off some blue-gray beauty,
like a single drop of illustrious rain

that dances on the forehead of downtown
Stillwater, where the ice cream melts
to a laugh, where the river overflows,
where the marina lies and never goes.

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