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Fight Yourself or Fight the Sea

Cold deep dark and absolutely clear,
–Elizabeth Bishop

Cold and clear
Wet and dark
Impossibly near
Deep and far

Water and salt
Freezes and burns
Lunar attraction
Always returns

Fight yourself 
Or fight the sea
Heroic and Stupid
Never quite free

Endless and certain
Absolute
A tree is a man
With a brain in its root

by Richard W. Bray

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