A cord of ten brown pelicans
snaked through the hot air
cutting the shimmering heat
almost kissing the skin of the ocean
just off my stretch of sand
my piece of solitude
off the barrier island
that Carolina summer
almost twenty years ago
2/13/06 16:15
August 1988, Hilton Head Island
(Raymond A. Foss)
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