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Dundee Creek

Motionless over a meadow of bay grass,

the kayak’s hull is tickled by mossy

leaves waving in tidal currents. Fish

jumps, circles fan out. Poplar trunks,

cattails; two power plant smokestacks

striped red and white tower over the marsh.

Signs along the Proving Ground shore warn

trespassers against unexploded ordnance,

as all the wars waged against others

are first waged against ourselves.

Blue heron stalks the grenade shallows;

men cast lines into dangerous depths.

Minnows scatter when paddle blades

slice the brackish calm.