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What a Swell Can Do

By Lucas Skalleberg

From the distant red horizon,

slow and rolling shoulders push

ahead of them an apprehension.

My head high inside the lazy sky

prepares to soon be doused

under a roaring dragon mouth.

All the petty grievances

I bear are sucked down to the ocean

floor to sift through layers of sand.

With a last rush to the shore,

light and fluid, I turn around

and catch the green flash of the sun.