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A thousand gulls
by John Dotson

well maybe not quite a thousand
at the mouth of the rìo today

as i watched the freshwater deep brown
and verdant of valley drown beneath

the saltwater waves

beaks aligned upstream toward estuary
a gaggle of gulls were swept swiftly backward
by the current unto the breakers

where just before doom they lifted off
one by one and then all together swerving up
and over the waves in a great arc

then to return and land
on nice dry sand

cycle after cycle

then one daring bird after another
ventured back into the river beaks aligned
upstream untoward estuary flapping ducking

floating unresisting backward drawn down
to the very brink of oceanic catastrophe almost
then all erupted and patterned out over the waves

to return and land
on dry sand

cycle after cycle

i was convinced of their joy
sure as anything

it was completely clear to me
they were

just having fun

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