ADRIFT AT SEA

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This Message in a Bottle Made it From New York to France | Condé Nast ... image from cntraveler.com

ADRIFT AT SEA sea-worn bottle, bobs on a digital tide. inside, not parchment brittle with ocean’s brine, but luminous lines of light, coded in metaphors and rhyme. message tossed into the sea. unknown sender, no harbor designated, no destination on any map. it drifts, an abandoned, forlorn vessel, across oceans of indifference, until… a seacoast appears, unsummoned, unexpected. my eyes, the sand. my mind, the beach. I pick it up, this delicate thing, uncorking the silence. The words flow out, a story whispered, a feeling shared, across lifetimes, across the vacuity. Suddenly~I am the address. the recipient unknown, FOUND. the message delivered. the poem, HOME.

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