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Float Trip
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Coercing with incessant tug,
Dictating direction,
Meeting defiance with frigid lashing.
Overturned canoe rests where former occupants, now soaked,
Watch coolers and clothing travel down river,
Now property of the pilfering current.

Copyright © 1998 by Randal A. Burd, Jr.

Publications: Rolla, MO: Southwinds, Fall 1998

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