Sunday, February 8, 2009

Reminder to Myself

oh how
could I have sighted
the first continent
of my love
and said boldly,
“this is the whole earth”?


truly, all I know
of any coast
is the worn ring
of a shell
resting its slight weight;


all I know of the voyage
is rapt surrender
to the blind muscle
of water that holds me
aloft once again.

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