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SIMON PATTON

 

The Whole Joy

 

Every swimmer

owns that terror

she died of.

 

Yet still this summer

we bait the water

with her fears.

 

Sun, sand, sea:

how these three

symbol the mind’s joy …

 

What shadows them –

decease, devastation –

revolts it.

 

Like earth, like air,

no ocean bears

any enduring stain –

 

we mind her pain,

scarified, so that we can learn

the whole joy.