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 ode to turBulenCe What did you expect with a three-year-old what did you expect married or single dipping into your Ligurian seacoast dream once alone twicethrice companioned but never exactly the right mix of solitude and coupling nature’s nature is thorny / faceslap -ping wave you have swallowed so with mouth salty eyes stinging you struggle to stay afloat while belowbelowschools of black fish are suspended as though in a calm pond you may never enter it is here on the surface you lose everything to gain mastery of your wish for mastery you may not swim in the Bay of Silence or Bay of Fables only out here between this rocky outcropping in the noon hour where foam curtains furl over rock and gulls perch on cliffs above you biding their timereminding you you cannot glide. ...

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