July morning, white sky fat
with the planet’s condensed breath,
bay slick as oil, the quick red fox
slips her nose into the shallows
and slides a mollusk from sanctuary.
A dance and toss, a swallow, and in dusk,
under cotton sky on hard soaked sand, I attend
the last moment of a razor clam.
I breathe. Without a glance she turns and trots
toward the raw new house on the bluff.
A leap into saw-grass and gone.
And then the dawn.
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