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We’re small now, small as fish in our tiny school, kayaking toward booming spouts, flukes and shadow-backs breaking the glassy sea— All around we see, hear, whale, and drift, reckless to encounter them rising, ethereal tons unstitching the surface—the sea a nether-world I dream into but can’t know, where a fin rises like a black door then disappears— I’ve come here to be lost in the blue center, rocking on the brink of wet darkness, the sea swelling with beings, two miles out, waves picking up
Anne Marie Macari is the author of five books of poems, including Heaven Beneath (Persea, 2020), as well as Red Deer (Persea, 2015). In 2000, Macari won the APR/Honickman first book prize for Ivory Cradle, chosen by Robert Creeley. Her poems and essays have been widely published in magazines such as The Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, and The Massachusetts Review.
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