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First Line: A woman sits on the one rock


A woman sits on the one rock
white as her body. She gazes out
to the tuna-fishing silence
of the early morning watercolor
with its sloshing and response.

She is far away from herself:
not a hysterical uterine, not
Leda peaceful after flooring
the swan. Sea foam is not her
counterpoint. Sea motion is
not her metaphor.


Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org




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