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Aerial

She brings red wine and a photograph album

of aerial views taken from

a two-seater,

Desolation Sound

down to Oregon, snowy

mountains, blue-green coves.

It makes me want to distance myself

even more than I do by coming here

to stay in a house built high on a hill

with a view to die for. And later,

when she’s gone off to navigate the

Celtic knot of roads from Galleon to Gunwhale,

I stay up

in the darkness imagining a cluster of lights

in the distance as a place to land. Black water

between me and a place with no pain.