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Spring 1961 • Vol. XXIII No. 2 • Poetry |

Sable Island

By Philip Booth

60° W—43° 56′ N

You wouldn’t want to go there. Sand
is all there is: a graveyard strip
of ships’ bones in the North Atlantic;

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