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Shafer Hall & Ada Limon: An Unlikely Code For Likely Pirates

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

Establishing credibility with our sails
isn’t our game, we’re more the type to
float below the radar like the celocanth

and then eat your brains like the celocanth
and hang our actions out to carry us
away. The universe achieves balance this way,

and faith rebuilds with tiny victories
over itself; we plunder only what we can carry
and carry only what reminds us of ourselves.

When burning villages reflect on the sea
I think only of this body, only of me.
The universe smiles indulgently.

Filed Under: Contributors 74, Issue 74, Poetry, Poetry 74 Tagged With: Ada Limón, Contributors 74, Poetry, Poetry 74, Shafer Hall

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