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    The speaker recalls sitting on a bench at the bottom of the ocean with their companion, drifting among sea creatures as leaves settle on streets and their window. The streets were once slowed by the motion of the ocean but now cracks asphalt. Memories pass briefly like strangers in cars before time evaporates with the rain, leaving the speaker and companion dying on the sidewalk. To escape the cracking sidewalk, they return to their splintered bench under budding trees before sinking back into the ocean.

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    The speaker recalls sitting on a bench at the bottom of the ocean with their companion, drifting among sea creatures as leaves settle on streets and their window. The streets were once slowed by the motion of the ocean but now cracks asphalt. Memories pass briefly like strangers in cars before time evaporates with the rain, leaving the speaker and companion dying on the sidewalk. To escape the cracking sidewalk, they return to their splintered bench under budding trees before sinking back into the ocean.

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    The speaker recalls sitting on a bench at the bottom of the ocean with their companion, drifting among sea creatures as leaves settle on streets and their window. The streets were once slowed by the motion of the ocean but now cracks asphalt. Memories pass briefly like strangers in cars before time evaporates with the rain, leaving the speaker and companion dying on the sidewalk. To escape the cracking sidewalk, they return to their splintered bench under budding trees before sinking back into the ocean.

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    Closer Alex Powell

    62
    Garret 2020
    Pond Water
    Let us kill time together
    On our bench at the bottom
    Of the ocean
    Drown out the rasp of leaves breathing
    Across old streets
    Drift with the denizens of the deep

    Leaves crack the asphalt and settle


    On the sill of my window
    My window flaked with splinters
    Found floating in the sleeping ocean
    That used to slow the motion
    Of these old stained streets
    Where the rhythm of leather
    Breathed life into weathered men
    Where tears turned dust into mud
    And gold into blood

    Those moments pass like strangers in cars.


    For a moment

    Thunder burns behind my eyes


    Time will evaporate with the rain
    Candy Land Sophia Gotham
    ‘Till you and I are left dying like dry worms
    Writhing on the sidewalk

    But the sidewalk cracks my feet


    So we take a seat
    On our little splintered park bench
    Bare trees bud with green and then
    We sink into the ocean again.

    Eliza Shaffer
    63

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