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A chapter in the book Word Games

Shorelines

by estory

I

I walk a shoreline of driftwood,
Seashells, grains of sand

Like dreams, stretching far
As the eye sees.

Coming up from the bottom of the sea.

II

Black skies. White windows.
After sunset, she stands there,
Waiting,
Night after night.
But his boat will never come back.

III

The line goes out
Into the undertow,

Wild, unfathomable,
A seal or porpoise

Changeling

In another element.
On the other side.

IV

Mainland. An island.
One stands on the edge of shorelines,
Thinking.
Where am I now?
What lies on the other side?

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This is a poem about separations and efforts to bridge them, in life. There are elements of dreams versus reality, death juxtaposed with life, the spiritual versus the physical, and beginnings and endings, and the journeys between all these various points. The rhythm is meant to kind of emulate that rising and falling of the sea. The images of the sea and land, coming together at the shoreline, are the underlying metaphor for all these separations and confluences going on in this poem. estory
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