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So I said, «Men, pull her out of the water

And then lay on hands

And bind back her flippers and tail

Until international waters. And there we’ll feel

What’s human inside of her.»

So she’s chilly and slick

On her hips where the scales meet with skin

With a sickening flick of her tail, circling

Her gills fill with cold, salty water

She thrashes and twirls, her freezing fins fluttering

And she’s pretty, I think

With her hair dark as ink, and her belly bone-white

And her lips, of a slight, sea-shell pink, slightly part

As she’s tonguing the tub’s rusty rim

As the saltwater flows out and in

All farewells to the land we knew well

We’d never be touching again

To the fields where we rambled and ran

Farewell to our wives and children

Let’s stand on the deck and let’s watch

Them all disappearing

And the days all float by

In a daze, over waves, under sky

And the weeks slowly leak into years

The last islands are all left behind as we silently sail

Until late some dark night, a wild wind starts to wail

And our map blows away

And our compasses fail

And it’s out on the lost boiling black water

Where I see her float out

And she’s so thin and so pale. I see her rise up

And she’s so fast and so fair. My hands meet

And they press to a point in the air

But my mouth fills with more panic than prayer

And my skull fills with more color than care

And my heart fills with love, with too much love to bear

And I know that I’ll stay, and that she’ll always be there

My hands sunk in cold sand

Sea-weed strung through her hair

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