waves (poem)
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the ocean sings her boisterous song
first a murmur — a trial of sound
then the squelching symphony
of overlapping water
leading into the sonorous crescendo
of a terrestrial collision
before once again, perpetually chorusing
to that gentle hum, to begin anew
// written on the shore of sunset beach, oregon coast