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Tom Holmes

Stand

Part 2 of 'Cycles'

Cold rushes and sweeping waves
The saline biting breeze
Spirals and rolls
Whispers and roars
Crashes and breaks
And the still.
Still.
 
Send the search, he must be found.
Dredge the sand and hunt the cliffs
and comb the dunes.
He’s there. I know he is.
He’s in the still, bathed and wrapped
in the currents, held by the flow and
happy.
Happy still

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