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rackish water	A
held together by mangrave roots	B
that bear while living oysters in clusters	C
and when dead strew white swamps with skeletons	D
dotted as if bombarded with green hummocks	D
like ancient cannon balls sprouting grass	D
The state full of long S shaped birds blue and white	E
and unseen hysterical birds who rush up the scale	F
every time in a tantrum	G
Tanagers embarrassed by their flashiness	D
and pelicans whose delight it is to clown	H
who coast for fun on the strong tidal currents	D
in and out among the mangrove islands	D
and stand on the sand bars drying their damp gold wings	D
on sun lit evenings	D
Enormous turtles helpless and mild	I
die and leave their barnacled shells on the beaches	D
and their large white skulls with round eye sockets	D
twice the size of a man's	D
The palm trees clatter in the stiff breeze	D
like the bills of the pelicans The tropical rain comes down	H
to freshen the tide looped strings of fading shells	D
Job's Tear the Chinese Alphabet the scarce Junonia	H
parti colored pectins and Ladies' Ears	D
arranged as on a gray rag of rotted calico	J
the buried Indian Princess's skirt	K
with these the monotonous endless sagging coast line	H
is delicately ornamented	L
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Thirty or more buzzards are drifting down down down	H
over something they have spotted in the swamp	M
in circles like stirred up flakes of sediment	N
sinking through water	A
Smoke from woods fires filters fine blue solvents	D
On stumps and dead trees the charring is like black velvet	O
The mosquitoes	D
go hunting to the tune of their ferocious obbligatos	D
After dark the fireflies map the heavens in the marsh	P
until the moon rises	D
Cold white not bright the moonlight is coarse meshed	Q
and the careless corrupt state is all black specks	D
too far apart and ugly whites the poorest	R
post card of itself	S
After dark the pools seem to have slipped away	T
The alligator who has five distinct calls	D
friendliness love mating war and a warning	U
whimpers and speaks in the throat	V
of the Indian Princess	D

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