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| Breakers at high tide shoot |
| spray over the jetty boulders |
| that collects in shallow chips, depressions, |
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| evening the surface to run-off level: |
| of these possible worlds of held water, |
| most can't outlast the interim tideless |
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| drought, so are clear, sterile, encased with |
| salt: one in particular, though, a hole, |
| providing depth with little surface, |
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| keeps water through the hottest day: |
| a slime of green algae extends into that |
| tiny sea, and animals tiny enough to be in a |
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| world there breed and dart and breathe and |
| die: so we are here in this plant-created oxygen, |
| drinking this sweet rain, consuming this green. |
