Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WAIKIKI: EVENING, by BIM MELGAARD


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WAIKIKI: EVENING, by                    
First Line: Swimmer in twilight
Last Line: To the horizon.
Subject(s): Waikiki, Hawaii


Swimmer in twilight:
Bend the firm water.
When the sky furnace
Settles to ashes
And the steel ocean
Sinks into quiet,
Press your relentless arms,
Coppered and muscled,
Into the metal depths
Spreading the coral.
Ocean in twilight:
Welcome the swimmer
Who with his tawny grace
Rumples your cover
Tucked in precisely
From shore edge to skyline.
New moon and old star:
Hang from your sky chain,
Light the lone swimmer's way
To the horizon.





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