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by Elisabeth Long

Created on: November 14, 2009   Last Updated: November 15, 2009

Watching Father in Nags head


In fierce solitude
you pilot illusive lines;
working to orchestrate
the dance of the blue-tailed kite.

A dessert
of sand stretches
parched and insurmountable
between us.

Contemplating the jagged shell
of an oyster
I wonder, did the irritation
become a pearl?


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