February 8, 2011 Wave-battered, ice-bound, at last the long night-shadows retreat. Salt and fresh water mix here in the unruly way thirst and satiation commingle. Torn from an imagined home I disembark on this foreign bay where swans sleep next to migrating geese, the one leaving, the one staying.
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