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And I read one more
in that series.

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"August."

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On the Japan Sea,
that's the body

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of water between the main island
of Japan and the continent.

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In the summertime they do
a lot of squid fishing.

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They go out with boats at
night, netting the squid.

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And then during the daytime,
the people from those fishing

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villages sleep.

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"At night, town
of lights at sea,

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unpainted rock
proud squid fishers,

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boats with their gas metal
lamps, miles offshore.

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Counted 200.

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Wind curls on the soft, sticky
chest, caked ribs, sticky sea.

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They dodging sun, zigzagging
barefoot on blistering rocks.

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To dive, skim under
reefs, down along

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ledges looking for oysters,
or snails, or fish.

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Night without blankets,
sleeping on the sand.

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That squid fisher lights,
one man, two cycle engines.

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They sleep all day under
the eaves, headland, houses,

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half naked on mats.

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The wives gather shells,
coarse tongue the sun black,

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or working at carrying rocks
for the new coast road,

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eating big lunch
balls of crude rice.

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Tobacco and grapes on the dunes.

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Some farmers come down to
the beach, in the dark.

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White lanterns, sending out
robots swinging, a thousand

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foot net, five times down
the length of the beach.

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We help fall, tumbling
pockets, glittering eyes,

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and white bellies.

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A full-sized young woman,
her dress tucked up

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in her pants, tugs and curses.

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An old man crawling across
the dark water sculling.

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The last hole, a yard wide ray.

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She snaps off his switching
devil tail stinger,

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and gives us three fish.

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They beach their
boats full of nets,

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the lamps bob over the dunes.

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We sleep in the
sand, and our souls."

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I have eight of those
months finished.

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I have four more months to go.