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Now, as I planned it, we
reach the westerly shores

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of Moidart, Arisaig and Morar.

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Our squeaking walk
on the singing sands,

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it's another day to walk
the strand on Rubha Da

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Chuain, where every cap could
be a seal flipping, another day

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to look south for the
lost wind which will open

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the bay to gentler weather.

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Another day to sip dark
tea from the mussel's

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flared rim, getting back
to the origin of things.

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Another day to finger
poems for the tide

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to read, and erase while the
beach counts over and over.

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Another day of
saltwater without storm,

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light shattering,
glinting fragments.

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Another day, it's all unfolding
under the fucoid wrack quieting

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the dark tidal wood.

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Lochmaddy, North Uist, in the
Western Isles, just for once

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the big winds--

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just for once, the
big wings of the wind

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are taking a rest, while we
walk in the dark collecting

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a different moon in
each finger of lochan.

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Constant in phases,
the incremental moon

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gets a good washing in the
waves, rippling its broad beam,

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tickling the waves, silvering
the pixels of the Gaelic ocean.