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by Sidney Bending, Michael Dylan Welch, and Margaret Rutley
First published in Presence #75, March 2023, page 79. Originally written in June and July of 2020.
old pirate ship
a young mate asleep
in the crow’s nest Sidney
an empty treasure chest
down in the hold Michael
galley grumbles
hardtack biscuits
with weevils Margaret
seaheave drumming
of his peg leg Sidney
land ahoy!
even the parrot
has an eye-patch Michael
on edge . . . the bosun
sharpens his cutlass Margaret
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