THE MERMAID

We found her there
on the beach
with sea-wrack hair
and pebbled breasts
waiting for the tide
to wash her home
where the merman waits
at the turn of the bay
and her children play
in the grotto-ed halls
with sea-polished bones
where the whale calls

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