fishermen's kayaks
flounder in hot mid-storm

russet embryos of boats

crazed monsoons of June
charge out of bleached blue air

and the tempest of crosswinds quakes
like inauspicious and epidemic orgasms

the lighthouse stands in this thunderbolt
of billows on cliffs

shipwreck of unrehearsed dementia
in the wild of unquiet darkness
 

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