”I recall Aristotle’s claim that a solitary human would be no human but either a beast or a god.” Desmond, GODSENDS (2021), 119.
My heart lifted me
so I could see the one duck
in the cove just then.
The only one out
there. The glare was too much but
my heart said hello
before I could think.
I could see it between piers
and boats, boats and piers.
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