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| October 01, 2006 | Harvey, Margaret | COPYRIGHT 2006 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

 
LAKES 
 
   Crystal is natural to a lake 
   in early morning, when the eye 
   can pierce its clean skin 
   clear through to the decoration 
   of antic weed and static shingle-a 
   world that shines like olden days, 
   and belies blueness, seen afar. 
 
   Cradled on the lake, our whole family 
   in a crest-slapping dinghy 
   sits fishing. For nothing. For a school. 
   For a bite. Suddenly my father 
   doffs shirt and shorts, dives overboard 
   and swims around and under the boat, 
   like a distracted merman. Amazement fills me. 
   What is holding him up? 
   Underneath the lake's bloom 
   lie who knows what--weeds and fish, 
   and a squelchy bottom that he is daring. 
   My heart is overturned, and imagination 
   goggles at this fresh infinity. 
 
   Once we watched a squall come 
   across the ...

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