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Nothing's certain Crossing on this longest day	A
the low tide uncovered isthmus scrambling up	B
the scree slope of what at high tide	C
will be again an island	D
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to where a decade since well being staked	E
the slender unpremeditated claim that brings us	F
back year after year lugging the	G
makings of another picnic	H
	-
the cucumber sandwiches the sea air sanctified	E
fig newtons there's no knowing what the slamming	I
seas the gales of yet another winter	J
may have done Still there	K
	-
the gust beleaguered single spruce tree	L
the ant thronged root snelled moss grass	M
and clover tuffet underneath it	E
edges frazzled raw	N
	-
but like our own prolonged attachment holding	I
Whatever moral lesson might commend itself	O
there's no use drawing one	P
there's nothing here	Q
	-
to seize on as exemplifying any so called virtue	E
holding on despite adversity perhaps or	R
any no more than human tendency	L
stubborn adherence say	A
	-
to a wholly wrongheaded tenet Though to	E
hold on in any case means taking less and less	S
for granted some few things seem nearly	L
certain as that the longest day	A
	-
will come again will seem to hold its breath	T
the months long exhalation of diminishment	E
again begin Last night you woke me	L
for a look at Jupiter	J
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that vast cinder wheeled unblinking	I
in a bath of galaxies Watching we traveled	E
toward an apprehension all but impossible	U
to be held onto	E
	-
that no point is fixed that there's no foothold	E
but roams untethered save by such snells	S
such sailor's knots such stays	S
and guy wires as are	V
	-
mainly of our own devising From such an	W
empyrean aloof seraphic mentors urge us	S
to look down on all attachment	E
on any bonding as	S
	-
in the end untenable Base as it is from	X
year to year the earth's sore surface	S
mends and rebinds itself however	J
and as best it can with	Y
	-
thread of cinquefoil tendril of the magenta	E
beach pea trammel of bramble with easings	S
mulchings fragrances the gray green	Z
bayberry's cool poultice	S
	-
and what can't finally be mended the salt air	K
proceeds to buff and rarefy the lopped carnage	A2
of the seaward spruce clump weathers	S
lustrous to wood silver	J
	-
Little is certain other than the tide that	E
circumscribes us that still sets its term	B2
to every picnic today we stayed too long	I
again and got our feet wet	E
	-
and all attachment may prove at best perhaps	S
a broken a much mended thing Watching	I
the longest day take cover under	J
a monk's cowl overcast	E
	-
with thunder rain and wind then waiting	I
we dropp everything to listen as a	E
hermit thrush distills its fragmentary	L
hesitant in the end	E
	-
unbroken music From what source beyond us or	R
the wells within such links perceived arrive	C2
diminished sequences so uninsistingly	U
not even human there's	S
	-
hardly a vocabulary left to wonder uncertain	P
as we are of so much in this existence this	S
botched cumbersome much mended	E
not unsatisfactory thing	I

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