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Northwind considerable
by John Dotson

ocean waves are older than anyone now living
older than any human has ever lived

older than breathing
older than airborne hearing

how long did this music wait for ears
maybe life crawled up on sand

so salt could share its salt with salt

older than any tribe or society or culture
or religion or political form

the rhythms of these waves

our footsteps all here today gone tomorrow
lace sun-struck silicate traces on the beach

our best embellishment as we head this way
that way this way as we so determine

youth is always here mine and yours
all youth that ever was and ever will behold
the music never once repeated in these waves
and I now take great pleasure in this

incarnate and innocence restoring moment

black crow being on white strand comes over to me
all strut and no caw

i take this bird very seriously
as she shoulders into blown-sideways steps

and flies off seaward

as to myself crow's meat
i might suggest
not this though
some other

day

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