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Tsunamis Rise
By Bill Costley





Tsunamis rise;

wound about Earth,

water's knot tightens its

treacherous grip on stone,

resisting our navigation on,

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above & below it, defeats

our transient triumphs,

hydrostrictive lives,

unslakeable thirst;

tsunamis fall.

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