the shape after motion

she's

dunegrass

ghostgrass

saltgrass

she's half root

she's both wave

she's half buried

she's both cave

lugworm casts

wet flats

eelgrass under tide pull

honeycomb mud

breathing holes

turnstone

stone turned

shore turned

oystercatcher

red bill

gannet

she's breakwater

she's backwash

she's blackwater

channelward

shoaling

estuary

swimming my slow back-stroke

past the last *******

in verdigris slick

there she was ~

a monarch

on dead water

face down

on the surface

crossing fetch

inland vector

drift

of hundreds

of hundreds of hundreds

of thousands

of hums

of hums

humming

of wingbeats

of wingbeats

wingbeat

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