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Pisces
You are salt
you are the sea
ungraspable.
An inland exile, each dry grain
ached with the memory of how
you'd come and go, and come and go,
of how, unheld, you yet surrounded me.
Full fathom five my father died,
opened his arms, abandoned me
his child of air, to climb alone
a suffocating ocean full of tears.
I cannot bid, control or bind you:
you answer to an ancient call,
obey slow planetary rhythms;
your dance mysterious and deep,
my task to yearn and wait.
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