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A boat sits on the very shallows         of a lake         in egg-cup fashion,         a tea-cosy covering waves,         orchestrating the bob of colours         in white enamel blue         inverted water.         Afar, the boat is a rasher of bacon         a strip, stripling, stipend         slicing the lake,         distancing.         The boat is an envelope         at the end of the world,         planet-sized, pea-green         about to spin crazily         into the sun at the         end of a rifle-sized         mail drop.         The boat rides amid the         between places of things,         furtive longings         where crones sit within         waiting bushes &         lizards visit skin,         dirge of teeth gnashing         the fringe canopy of         flowing leaves.

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