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Andrew McCord

                 

From the Bay Bridge-Tunnel

Off the highway, over the open sea,
Thoughts of you travel out and back to me.

The lack of you transposes the love of you.
The ocean's water is the love of you.

A petrel, shearing the water, too small to lay
Her burden down, has the life of loving you.

The heart's scat-singing dislocation
Steers the points up the Chesapeake

As if the tidewater were its consolation.


Copyright © 1999 Andrew McCord.

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