The men pushed against the wall and Lloyd gripped the sides of the boat, digging his fingers into the canvas and tar, into the coarse fragility of a homemade boat as it headed out into the Atlantic Ocean, into the strangeness, the unfamiliar
the not
willowed rivers
coxswains callings
muscled shoulders, tanned skin
sunglasses, caps and counting
not that
the familiar
no

Audrey Magee
The Colony

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