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Originally from
                  1990
               
Coastal Graveyard in Branford, Connecticut
               
               The frugal spaces
               
                 as if Yankees embraced 
               
                 the dirt down un-
               
                 to them. Above, 
               
               
            
               
               salt-scoured markers rippling in
               
                 exhaust from DATSUN & McDONALDS.
               
                 (We must seem to ripple too 
               
                 inside the supermarket's window.)
               
               
            
               
               A stone shakes
               
                 at the end of vision.
               
               
            
               
               OFF THE COAST OF BRAZIL
               
                 we had earlier browsed.
               
                 The girl scans barcodes
               
                 off our frozen food.
               
               
            
               
               
                Where water is the jungle,
               
               
               
                 bronze and green, shrieking
               
               
               
                 birds of teal-streaked apricot
               
               
               
                 throng massive heat, drop hushed in 
               
               
               
                 ribbons past the dripping palms. 
               
               
               
            
               
               
               Through swollen calm, 
               
               
               
                 thence shadowing a dusk-
               
               
               
                 smoked wave which slides, 
               
               
               
                 an amorist's shoulder.