Low Tide
I walk beside you
across mudflats in
my blue gumboots,
over crackling oyster
shells, green ribbed pipis, the traces of wading birds.
When the tide is out, what lies exposed:
river threads of mud, old round stones,
tiny mussels yet to grow:
my soul prints left
on the ocean’s bones.
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