corks

bottled messages

corpses

debris of catastrophe


all the world washes up

on beaches

amid sand castles

and blankets inches from incoming waves


where the living watch

the splendors of the planet

foster an idea of eternity

as limited as it is beyond knowing


corks and bottled messages waiting

to be launched by these eventual corpses






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