Lovelorn Poet in Savannah, GA: Neap Tides (Bison Jack)

Another Place by Helen Haden

Seventy percent water,
bent to the earth, we are
but ripples inhaling the wind.

–Bison Jack

wind ripples the earth
but we are
inhaling water
bent to the
Seventy* percent

*technically, it’s eighty-three percent, but seventy is close enough to exercise poetic license

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