Fragment - Colonize

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...great are the Alexanders,
eager, greening
conquering unkempt inland lawns

(hedgerows sugar-plum fairy)

and on marsh edge parading
both sides of sea-bank
a monopoly for the odd black bee

... a-shale a-slate sedate
the many ledges
a-grace, lace ruffle over
corded sun sauntering lines
shimmer ripple tines
flagella over
amber sand wriggling
sun-tint wrinkle over
molded sea-print...

word-slips
too crisp, sink dulling,
swash again, petty
sententious  -breathe -
contentious  - listen -
hush then, hush now, hush

through tinnitus
the curlew curl you
coy-coiled distance -

nine tenths of consciousness
gulls, terns
redshank, avocet...

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Homage to James Joyce prose.

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