Baltray

What day survives has yet to give, and may never.

What day survives has yet to give, and may never.

The golf links ruffles a solitary number four.

The dunes are out of bounds, the grey lines gaining, the lamp standards at the mouth of the estuary.

This is all by the way, all ancient history.

The word translates itself farther still from meaning

until the names for home and here are nothing more

than different tributaries of the same river.

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