shipping [2011]

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xx Fort Square
Gloucester, MA 01930

to down     an eye and another
(this is a prescribed vision pooling)
swimming     stroking viscous time
clocking waves of blue-black thread upon
concrete     a sextant drowned
activating the saltwater watch
within    back to blue the wet neck (a net)
and craning     to sea   it was once a place to sweat
docks still stacked with     
and
is too much knowledge
upon a fisherman's bench     or this

so to be delivered

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xxxx North Beacon Court
Canton, MI 48187

through a pane and a pane a blur down
eying an inconsistent     eye
is traveling a time or now     in transit
(a rapt package it is not)
looked to drown delivery     a taste of salt
officially received     blue wet and frayed  
paired with hooked cod a sweater 
not cloth not stacked     upon it is a 5-inch forearm scar
tomorrow     or a mother in
and
is asleep in the mud room
in a quiet scratch of breath     or this

     

an itinerant arrival

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xxx West Paseo Del Mar
San Pedro, CA 90731

appropriated by forever home     (the third)
an eye crushed landscape     salted and seasoned
strewn with commercial cardboard
time downed nautical icons
long strands of blue-black thread 
and archaic crystalline frames
where     it is now a conversation     it wore size 13 galoshes
then     was neglectful of  
                                                                                                and
withstood a storm of fish
unwrapping the wound itself     or this

a shipping renovation

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