Atlantis:
5. Coastal
C. 1993 by Mark Doty
Cold April and the neighbor girl
--our plumber's daughter-- comes up the wet street from the harbor carrying,
a loon. It's so sick,
does she think she can keep
that allows the head
across her arm?
the bird back from indifference,
the elements intend,
the Center for Coastal Studies,
until they come.
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SOURCE: "Atlantis" is a set of six poems by Mark Doty; it's the heart of his 1994 collection Atlantis. Three of the six are dream-centered. The World Dream Bank normally excludes nondream poems, but these are so powerful and compassionate I've made an exception and posted all six: 1 Faith - 2 Reprieve - 3 Michael's Dream - 4 Atlantis - 5 Coastal - 6 New Dog
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