from VIEWED FROM THE SEA

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Viewed from the coast
a vessel on the sea
wears a desolate
aspect

		chronology chains

conical hills or jagged mountains beyond the despondent
town and margin green.

			screaming laughter
			with such a state 
				of weather
				      further
				along
	
	trace changes

		stream by the ages


			marine habitual
delicate seaweed dragging their bodies into narrow
crevices

	fish
	phosphorescent in the dark

	land

	thin veins of serpentine; 	Seychelles,

Atlantic