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