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Razor-shell wastes, spring-tides' old strewage, crunch;lines of dried, felty seaweed, beiged as sandlead down to waves, froth-busy with the wind

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Razor-shell wastes, spring-tides' old strewage, crunch;
lines of dried, felty seaweed, beiged as sand
lead down to waves, froth-busy with the wind.
Lean against an old blockhouse to eat lunch.

The iron ribs of pipes within concrete,
time, salty-tide and wind conspire to pick;
though in doom's gullet stubborn bones might stick,
long decades lodged, digestion to complete.

Some shells are much more delicate, it's true,
their innards rarely left to elements;
grave robbers come with vans and license too -
and who knows now exactly what was meant

when lives append their meanings to get by,
until all purposes take wing and fly.

when lives append their meanings to get by,until all purposes take wing and fly

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It's a hybrid sonnet. I seem to like to mix the forms a little.



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