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Is That What You Are.

"Yet truth and falsehood meet in seeming, like
The falling leaf and shadow on the pool’s face."

--Festus

Trip.

      “Cuil Cliffs

The wall of Cuil cliff is
   crammed with gannets, jammed in
cracks or lodged on ledges,
   wedged in wave-lashed caves. Flight,
and their slick vertical
   stoop through the arcs and scoops
of deflected seas act
   on imaginations

as tongue-tips do on spines—
   may such ardent touchings
deluge and delight you.
   The debt the gannet owes
to these seas implies each
   possesses awareness.
No, they’re sapped and now-swept
   as my sea-wolf’s love-cry.”

--Ian Crockatt

Disk.