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Nocturne This way into the dark, this agent of darkness and its theater. Outside: Gull-glide and gaudy glare in maritime air, a study in the stasis of moving things. The tide pulling and pulling reveals the liquid state of every thing. A girl trails a fingernail across her boyfriend’s cheek, the two loose limbed, draped across a bench, a look of cool boredom — their talk secretive over willing waves — the current whisks a Styrofoam cup, a city of ebullient feeder fish — out the channel, into privacy chambers of the deep. 14 ...

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