April 20*

i want to be out there
on a wet slab of wood
swirling in the tide mix
the wind chop, feeling

the pull of the moon
                    the mountain-islands
                    the farthest star
                              of the last gleaming galaxy

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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