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dawn gold escaping a breach in the world that miracle again molten sun drips back into blackness the far side dawn inquisition light's slow suffusion of a stirred world middle ground monochrome surfers sign with stick arms a shearwater shoots the wave trough its cutting cry a boardrider's dog among tossed seaweed morning tideline |
noon sloth doses the needlework shade of sheoaks friarbirds the fringe of beach banksia full of gossip drowning light shadowless footprints stipple the sand embryonic ocean someone's body floats in its sea-hole a curved world without one honest line unbidden breakers pacific ocean as giant baptismal font global warming |
dusk
rock shadows moonscape the beach a defaced world a wave repaints sunset on wet sand bird hieroglyphs light draining out of the seascape a fingernail moon wave fluorescence lust for land confessed in stage whispers a tunnel through the bitou bush village lights sea quenches a chain lightning strike the sky reseals |