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Line 1: From water's broken mirror

Line 2: we pulled it,


Line 3: alive and shining
Line 4: gasping the painful other element of air.
Line 5: It was not just fish.
Line 6: There was more.
Line 7: It was hawk, once wild with
Line 8: hunger, sharp talons
Line 9: locked into the dying twist
Line 10: and scale of fish,
Line 11: its long bones
Line 12: trailing like a ghost
Line 13: behind fins
Line 14: through the dark, cold water
Line 15: It was beautiful, that water,
Line 16: like a silver coin stretched thin
Line 17: enough to feed us all,
Line 18: smooth as skin before anyone knew
Line 19: the undertow’s rough hands
Line20: lived inside it, working everything down
Line 21: to its absence,
Line 22: and water is never lonely,
Line 23: it holds so many
LINE 15-16: This is an example that people enjoy nature because it says that
the water was beautiful like a silver coin stretched thin meaning it shined and
was a beautiful sight to see, making the sentence look positive.

LINE 17: People rely on water to quench our thirst and water holds food for
humans and other different creatures. Water is a huge part in nature and every
living thing needs a connection with water to survive.

LINE 18-19: We know that the water has drowned many things. But the
water is known as this beautiful thing on the outside

LINE 20: which shows that there are many things under the water’s surface.

LINE 19-21: Water it capable of doing many things. It can be weak and very
strong and having an aspect of people fearing nature is the scariest truth.

LINE 22-23: Which means that there are a lot of things underwater. Animals
live there and there are always things in it and it is never empty.

line 24: It says, come close, you who want to swallow me;
line 25: already I am part of you
line 26: Come near. I will shape myself around you,
line 27: so soft, so calm
line 28: I will carry you
line 29: down to a world you never knew or dreamed,
line 30: I will gather you
line 31: into the hands of something stronger,
line 32: older, deeper.
LINE 24-25: The water wants to drown anyone or anything that comes to it.
LINE 26-27: The water wants to drown the hawk or anyone coming near.
LINE 28-29: It offers to show its prisoner new things they have never
dreamed of.
LINE 30-32: This means that the water holds so many more secrets that are
held underneath that humans can’t see because we only view the top
surface. The water offers to calmly and softly carry those
who want to swallow it to a deeper, older, stronger world that is not known
or dreamed about by those above the water’s surface.

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