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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Moonless Night, Tomales Bay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><i>bioluminescence – n. the
emission of light from living organisms<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">I set out upon an indigo bay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">in evening's spare light,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">yellow life jacket and red
canoe, frail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">against the muscle of dark
water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Pushing past the island<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">of cormorants and gull,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">each stroke ignites ripples;
oars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">dripping with minute life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">An intimate, star-petaled
sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">scatters its glow upon the
sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Darting fish set a thousand
blazes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">and the spill of Milky Way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">makes horizon meaningless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Dazzled, I slip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">beneath the surface,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">the slide of my body against<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">the tide trails a comet of
living light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">I stroke through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">shimmering swells,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">a second heartbeat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Lit from inside, my hands
open,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">reveal the gold coins,
passage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">to life's unknown edge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">I am not yet ready to spend
them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">but if I were, this might be
the place,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">purified by fire and water.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Susan Lamont</span></div>
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