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lacey sea foam tossing through windy air aging man with walking stick and poet's mop of gray hair trudges through sand... halts, leaning on his stick , observing an old woman with shriveled body and age-riddled skin stretched out on a giant towel trying to get a tan [Title Card: Maybe this man, old tattler, esteemed former laureate, is wondering if he could make a sonnet out of this sight. ] he walks on, stooping to pick up a conch shell near his feet looks at it, turns it clock and counter, peers into it holds shell to ear starts slow meditative amble towards mist-waving distance [Title Card: Doesn't it seem he might be hearing humming of every thing's destiny in the brittle pink alleys?]
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Aug 20, 2016
Aug 20, 2016 at 12:37 AM UTC
ALONG THE SHORE-an ekphrasis of a silent film clip
lacey sea foam tossing through windy air aging man with walking stick and poet's mop of gray hair trudges through sand... halts, leaning on his stick , observing an old woman with shriveled body and age-riddled skin stretched out on a giant towel trying to get a tan [Title Card: Maybe this man, old tattler, esteemed former laureate, is wondering if he could make a sonnet out of this sight. ] he walks on, stooping to pick up a conch shell near his feet looks at it, turns it clock and counter, peers into it holds shell to ear starts slow meditative amble towards mist-waving distance [Title Card: Doesn't it seem he might be hearing humming of every thing's destiny in the brittle pink alleys?]
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Aug 20, 2016
Aug 20, 2016 at 12:37 AM UTC
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