- Vol. 02
- Chapter 11
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Image by Vestry House Museum
tears
and may these days come again
when it is children going down
to the shore to gather water
too recently too much of other:
horror the sea itself cannot find
a way to bear, convulsions of pity
carry bodies, impossibly tiny
dressed in their finest for a trip
that began in desperate hope
and ends in grief, in salt