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    To My Father at the river I scratch where are you on a strip of eucalyptus bark and lay it on the water it snakes downstream until a crag lifts it free a week passes a month passes I watch the river wait for salmon listen to fish tales cast in the dawn a year passes I sit on the beach write poems in the sand watch the water rise till the words disappear one morning a gull sets land as it touches water all it's feather

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    To My Father at the river I scratch where are you on a strip of eucalyptus bark and lay it on the water it snakes downstream until a crag lifts it free a week passes a month passes I watch the river wait for salmon listen to fish tales cast in the dawn a year passes I sit on the beach write poems in the sand watch the water rise till the words disappear one morning a gull sets land as it touches water all it's feather

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    To My Father

    Uploaded by

    Mike Morrish
    To My Father at the river I scratch where are you on a strip of eucalyptus bark and lay it on the water it snakes downstream until a crag lifts it free a week passes a month passes I watch the river wait for salmon listen to fish tales cast in the dawn a year passes I sit on the beach write poems in the sand watch the water rise till the words disappear one morning a gull sets land as it touches water all it's feather

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    To My Father

    at the river
    i scratch where are you
    on a strip of eucalyptus bark
    and lay it on the water

    it snakes downstream
    until a crag lifts it free
    and it's snared
    in the beak of a gull
    flying south

    a week passes
    i sit on the beach
    at sunrise a pelican
    sets down near me
    stares and flies away

    a month passes
    i watch the river
    wait for salmon
    listen to fish tales
    cast in the dawn

    a year passes
    i sit on the beach
    write poems in the sand
    watch the water rise
    till the words disappear

    one morning
    a gull sets to land
    as it touches water
    all it's feathers turn to leaves
    on each leaf is written

    I am here

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