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Here's a poem which I
discovered because I

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looked back, and found it
because Michael Cuddihy here

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said he liked it very much.

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And I found it in one of these
books, so I'm going to read it.

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It's called "Voyaging
to the Antipodes."

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"I embark now from
this land of stone pots

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and leaves, and enter the sea.

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I plunge my arm into
her secret places.

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My compass turns to ichor.

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I sink.

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From her lips, there grows
savage bouquets of kelp.

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Between her hips, the drown
grind in their deaths.

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I join them.

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Cleanse me woman of
asphalt, of diffidence,

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of the rage of wives.

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My bush floats like a
lotus in her green death.

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I uncoil it to sleep.

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Her turbulence subsides.

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Day comes.

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The waves tread one by
one to customary beaches.

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The sun blinks.

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She awakes.

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Her eyes are dry stones.

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Her spray, my sweat.

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My kissed mouth
chafed by her salt.

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Sargasso of what latitudes?

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Under what stars?"

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