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What the sea is for my children, who asked?(Poem)

Quadrant

| June 01, 2004 | Gillett, Ross | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
WHAT THE SEA IS 
for my children, who asked 
 
   It is a big mirror 
   letting itself go at the edges. 
   It sways with a sort of heartbeat. 
 
   It grabs you 
   and has you hall laughing 
   as it hauls you in. 
 
   And our world is eaten away by it. 
   The salt gold 
   clinging to you, roughening your mother's arms, 
 
   is ...
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