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