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New Year
Another flood is finished to a fall
Finished finished with a roar and rush
And you and I two reeds on the bank
Go dipping hungry blades in her wash
Full fine sands rear up (how high
Each day!) like manatees out on spree
And even the sexless water lettuce
From upland go hand in hand to the sea
But you and I two reeds swaying on
The banks with the wind of world-blight
How long this hedging listing and roll
Before our self-split selves unite?
Insidious creaks of drying joints
Warn of recessions hard to reach
I wonder this flood in laps of the old
Will long bear aberrants on the beach.
— John Pepper Clark
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