How do you stop

a coming flood?

Or should you?

Build a wall up

Where herons last flew?

Dredge harbors and rivers,

Build levees? Lay sandbags with

An army of conscripts?

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You look at me through

scoops of recent seas

wondering how long

you were drifting in the

littoral of timelessness.

I'll be your world, for now

an oasis of reassurance that

it's not chance but destiny -

the journey was preordained

like waves rushing to break

or be broken.

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I wish we could have met

In happier times. But who could

Second guess a song

And its fortunes? We seal

The bond with the silence

Of our shared fate

I could have sworn I heard

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It should have been the dead leaves

Dry inside and out, convulsing and

Hopelessly defying gravity. Instead it’s

The snow coming down on trees and

Hedges stained by turmeric and saffron

Swirling, levitating like a possessed being,

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