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Last of all, she forgave herself.
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The wind is a trapped bird entangled in distance, a refugee gull blown inland by a category two hurricane. That angers her, because in younger years it would take a five to separate her from the shore. She hovers over McDonalds and Walmart for energy to sustain her flight home, diving for concrete water life: fries rolling like eels between cars and hamburger buns opening like clams from warm-waves of the sun. Sometimes bitterness gives way to memory: hermit crabs, platoons of foam capturing the beach and sandpipers defending against a navy of tourists. She hears the sea under the sound of a tire when it rains, puddled waves of mud sla
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DEVILgreen
Sep 20, 2010
Wow!
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