| Do Not Disturb |
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Do not disturb the sea in this house.
Do not make waves by leaping to fear.
Even a wake like a muskrat’s through reeds
upsets the house Neptune, the angry
face behind trident and storm. |
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Do not think less of yourself, caged,
longing like the shipwrecked for a shore.
Even boats fail here, their hulks
quaver underwater among wrecks
of armchairs, tables, beds, shadowed |
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| stumps in channels of light. |
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| from But I Won't Go Out in a Boat, |
| New Rivers Press (available from the author) |
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