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Spring 1989 • Vol. XI No. 2 • Poetry |

White Skiff

I see my skiff has slipped its mooring,
pulled downriver by the outgoing tide;
a rope rag dangles from the buoy.

Perhaps she nudges
the mudbank downstream where
green marshes hiss and change color.

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