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    This poem describes an unusual tide that follows an irregular rhythm of five beats, with three beats for the rising tide and two for the falling tide. As the tide retreats, it creates small sounds like voices, animals, and weather. Along the shore, the poem adds sixteenth notes resembling rain on tin roofs and thunder for the retreating tide. The rain and waves described do not seem real, instead falling on an island that is a gentle shadow, as the speaker totters on stilts before a dancing Hydra in the shallows.

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    This poem describes an unusual tide that follows an irregular rhythm of five beats, with three beats for the rising tide and two for the falling tide. As the tide retreats, it creates small sounds like voices, animals, and weather. Along the shore, the poem adds sixteenth notes resembling rain on tin roofs and thunder for the retreating tide. The rain and waves described do not seem real, instead falling on an island that is a gentle shadow, as the speaker totters on stilts before a dancing Hydra in the shallows.

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    Antilles Fantastique Broadside

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    This poem describes an unusual tide that follows an irregular rhythm of five beats, with three beats for the rising tide and two for the falling tide. As the tide retreats, it creates small sounds like voices, animals, and weather. Along the shore, the poem adds sixteenth notes resembling rain on tin roofs and thunder for the retreating tide. The rain and waves described do not seem real, instead falling on an island that is a gentle shadow, as the speaker totters on stilts before a dancing Hydra in the shallows.

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    ANTILLES FANTASTIQUE

    this tide breathes in double time or better,


    an uncommon time of five beats: three for
    the curling upslope and two for the retreat.
    a falling away beset with aspirations, tiny
    voices, murmurings of creatures rendered
    small by distance or unvoiced fleeting
    rattles of weather. and now, here, along
    the shore, up another slope you add a
    skirmish of sixteenth notes that could be
    rain pelting corrugated tin, then, for the
    downslope, a rumbling ossia of thunder. so
    rain that could never be rain falls upon
    waves that could never be waves, on an
    island that is not an island but a gentling of
    palmate shadows. and now, out in the
    shallows, you totter on stilts before a
    Hydra on her tiptoes who has just asked
    you to dance.
    Antilles Fantastique by John Elkerr
    17 x 22
    Ink on paper

    Text by Stephen Eric Berry

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