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f the Cape light that scours	A
Sand grit to sided crystal	B
And buffs and sleeks the blunt hulls	C
Of the three fishing smacks beached	D
On the bank of the river's	A
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Backtracking tail I'd come for	E
Free fish bait the blue mussels	C
Clumped like bulbs at the grassroot	F
Margin of the tidal pools	G
Dawn tide stood dead low I smelt	H
Mud stench shell guts gulls' leavings	I
Heard a queer crusty scrabble	B
	-
Cease and I neared the silenced	J
Edge of a cratered pool bed	K
The mussels hung dull blue and	L
Conspicuous yet it seemed	M
A sly world's hinges had swung	N
Shut against me All held still	O
Though I counted scant seconds	P
	-
Enough ages lapsed to win	Q
Confidence of safe conduct	R
In the wary other world	S
Eyeing me Grass put forth claws	T
Small mud knobs nudged from under	U
Displaced their domes as tiny	V
Knights might doff their casques The crabs	W
	-
Inched from their pygmy burrows	X
And from the trench dug mud all Camouflaged in mottled mail	Y
Of browns and greens Each wore one	Z
Claw swollen to a shield large	A2
As itself no fiddler's arm	B2
Grown Gargantuan by trade	C2
	-
But grown grimly and grimly	V
Borne for a use beyond my	D2
Guessing of it Sibilant	C2
Mass motived hordes they sidled	C2
Out in a converging stream	E2
Toward the pool mouth perhaps to	C2
Meet the thin and sluggish thread	C2
	-
Of sea retracing its tide	C2
Way up the river basin	Z
Or to avoid me They moved	C2
Obliquely with a dry wet	C2
Sound with a glittery wisp	F2
And trickle Could they feel mud	C2
Pleasurable under claws	T
	-
As I could between bare toes	X
That question ended it I	D2
Stood shut out for once for all	G2
Puzzling the passage of their	H2
Absolutely alien	Z
Order as I might puzzle	B
At the clear tail of Halley's	X
	-
Comet coolly giving my	D2
Orbit the go by made known	I2
By a family name it	C2
Knew nothing of So the crabs	X
Went about their business which	J2
Wasn't fiddling and I filled	C2
A big handkerchief with blue	C2
	-
Mussels From what the crabs saw	X
If they could see I was one	Z
Two legged mussel picker	U
High on the airy thatching	N
Of the dense grasses I found	C2
The husk of a fiddler crab	K2
Intact strangely strayed above	L2
	-
His world of mud green color	U
And innards bleached out blown off	M2
Somewhere by much sun and wind	C2
There was no telling if he'd	C2
Died recluse of suicide	C2
Or headstrong Columbus crab	K2
The crab face etched and set there	H2
	-
Grimaced as skulls grimace it	C2
Had an Oriental look	N
A samurai death mask done	Z
On a tiger tooth less for	E
Art's sake than God's Far from sea	X
Where red freckled crab backs claws	X
And whole crabs dead their soggy	X
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Bellies pallid and upturned	C2
Perform their shambling waltzes	X
On the waves' dissolving turn	N2
And return losing themselves	X
Bit by bit to their friendly	X
Element this relic saved	C2
Face to face the bald faced sun	Z

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