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THE FIRST GLOW You said storms were like department stores out here insideyou said the lining ot euening. I in turn considered your black slip. Tftis you said Of a stranded can buoy is f rom the storm ol 1978. And so we exchanged body fluids in the unlocked island tower. Celebrants of a sensitive ochlocracy. There was shore everywhere shore in the wallet of things shore inside the stones that night When you rvhispered to me that the gulls were growling just to keep you awake making human sounds. We went out looking for them and things got so black We couldnt see our feet but instead saw the ScotiaPrince sliding across the black space the way an ocean liner in a fountain pen slides at night from Portland To Nova Scotia Portland the first glow and then Brunswick Naval Air Station then airplanes heading due east to Europe. the flight attendant telling them The movie for tonight is. We groped our way torvard Devils Backbone in a quiet giant as New York City showy over the guano showy and absolute The inhospitable black spruces behind us falling off to water dark as duck sauce. and then we had the fight about the IRSlike Lowell and Stafford out here For Gods sake all that Catholicism in the twinkling Iights gutting Harpswell across the water and you saying how stupid I was to call the main number for the IRS The number with 1o4o as its last four digits its like being washed up on the ocean you said Hellois this the ocean2 Am I speaking to the ocean now7