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Near Llareggub

Jill Vance — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

After Dylan Thomas On moonless nights with the world, dripping in Davy-darkness, bible-blackness, a galleon comes close to being ript asunder. The old boy knows the wreckers who want to best him and his men. His brethren-sailors with hushed breaths and blind as moles, wade into the shallows, lugging brandy, wine and gin. Their stumbling…

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Morecambe Bay

Angela Sun — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Like the gulls prickling the simmering surface you surrendered into water: lending shadow to silvering fish, their flickers of nakedness, bands of seaweeds tourniqueting the ramshackle tides that locked you on barnacle-scarred rocks. Your wind-wrapped shouts smothering in the carry over to the sleepy salt-lipped town kissing the ocean, the air turning brittle on the…

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All Hands On Deck

Robert J. Tiess — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Tumultuous, the ocean throws a listing ship from wave to stew where darkness swells and panic grows. Then thunder stuns the shrunken crew. They clutch at ropes or hopes and swear, “The captain, he must get us there!” —that island where they would retire and share their tales beside the fire, recounting swords that slashed…

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Salinity

Melissa Strilecki — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

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Three Pieces: Tidal Pool, Storm, & Crashing Waves

Felicity Williams — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

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Why The Briny Blue Reminds Me Of You

Mark Stewart — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

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Deep Sea Dirge

Kathryn Reilly — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

i. aquariums fail to house the ocean’s threatened lamenting, seas still ii. littered sandy floors host aquatic genocide ghosts’ bones settling iii. tides break the bones sending sharp fragments ashore soft feet fear to tread iv. fairytales will rise recalling gentle giants singing beneath waves

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Gulls

Caroline Morris — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

I walk towards the gulls gathered on the damp sand, Their little feet, too, teased by the ocean’s back-and-forth love. They hear me in the darkness And alight. Shivering, I watch their white bodies glide low across the black waves.

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Marina’s Pantoum

Tory V. Pearman — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

We open the book as wide as my daughter’s smile upon seeing the illustration of the Selkie woman. I am the reader of this book; you are the woman in the illustration. You love your fisherman husband. Upon seeing the illustration of the Selkie woman, we trace the outline of the sealskin, smooth as paper.…

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Inis Mór

Ava Palmer — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

The sea-faring people of Inis Mór, Battered by rain and wind and hail, Did not seek shelter on ship or on sand, But faced the elements, hard as nails. No lighthouse did guide their way, The stars obscured by weeping heavens, No one, but the people on shore, God, and prayers, led them home. Now…

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