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| Against the Atlantic in Duck, NC |
the dipper rose from the churning sea
and stood glittering upon its handle
balanced on the clean dark line
that is the roundness of the earth
First the moon out of the sea
followed by the constellations
in their ancient order
and then the blinding sun
and then again the moon and then the stars
the nights and days and nights and lives
in ordered and immutable procession.
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