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Poems by Bin Ramke
Into Bad Weather Bounding
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Curve of Pursuit

 
by Bin Ramke

A point, a line, alignment. Lovely
the lingering lights along the shore
as the century lays itself out for observation:

hunger and the youthful indiscretion.
I am one of many, or not even one,
but am of many one who watches the waves

and allows the particulate sand its say,
say, its sound, susurrant. Of many one
engaging the ear as if the Pacific

meant its name, as if the edge of
continent contented us with boundary.
Draw a line from A to B. Live there.









Copyright © 2012 by Bin Ramke. Used with permission of the author.
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