Drinking Song
Across a gulf
the cooling beams burst from behind
clouds. Nothing is set.
I wrap you in blankets
like the woman who sleeps in
a wheelchair outside
the closed souvenir store.
When it opens we turn
to shore and gather shells.
I can barely hold what I find and you
have no trouble with one at a time,
singing, while you dance across the bridge,
a song of waves but not the song itself.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 370 |
Words | 74 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 2 |
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