& when the tea ebbs
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& when the happyfeet inherit the mirth -- sandy
shoals of fjord or firth or prairie

then

some dazzling things yes!  some dazzling things!
await in algae on the beaches -- secondary gifts --
amber set in silver -- scat of boozeglass -- and
del monte's darkly hollow cans of shaven peaches


Marek Lugowski
7 September, 1997
Lake Michigan, near the Kathy Ostermann Beach,
Chicago