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<h1><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">New Tracks</font></span></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal">All that marks the rain-pocked sand </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">are the small holes of sand crabs, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">the occasional scallop shell, a beached</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">jellyfish and the skidding foam from the tide.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">On the sandbar a line of pelicans</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">stand watch as the sandpipers swarm</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">the edge of the water like ants</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">as the whitecaps trace the horizon.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The rain has passed for now</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">and the clouds are breaking overhead,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">moving off like the tide withdrawing.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The blue beyond is a depth we don’t know.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">When the tide comes in, all this</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">will be swept away again</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">and the beach will be cleared</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">for a new day and new tracks in the sand.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Newton Smith<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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