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| If I stare long enough, the ocean moves, and I hear it. |
If it is true as a great poet said
that the soul is the external world
then i need a few weeks by the sea
barefoot alone in the wind
a few weeks in old clothes i save for the sea
with a few books i've bagged to reread
in the negative ions and cries of sea birds
and the unending scrub at the margins of dreams
with passionate rains and sudden sea change
that seem like a promise renewed
the sun sinking fast behind dunes
the moon rising out of a perfect horizon
with the Great Outer Darkness behind it
the same as the small inner darkness in me.
–with lines by Ted Hughes
