The Prince of Tides
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Read between January 22 - January 26, 2021
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The house faced the inland waterway, and the town of Colleton could be seen down the river, its white mansions set like chess pieces above the marsh.
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The child of a beautiful woman, I was also a shrimper’s son in love with the shape of boats.
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Standing beside him as a small boy, I would press my nose against my father’s shirt and he would smell like some rich, warm acre.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of indrawn tides.
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I made a simple choice not to and found solace in the gentle palmistry of forgetfulness, a refuge in the cold, lordly glooms of the unconscious.
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In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
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The words of her poems were a most private and fragrant orchard.
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Luke acted when the heart cried out; the poetry in him was wordless.
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Atlanta is a place where they built a city and left the forest intact.
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“I wanted your grandfather to take me up to Atlanta and lay me out naked on Stone Mountain and let the vultures devour my earthly flesh, but he was horrified.
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He was tall and thin and had a complexion like goat cheese left on the table too long.
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The smell of this place rides in the bones wherever you go.
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Grandpa couldn’t get the motor started right away and we floated like an oak leaf through waters of soft pearl as otters flashed around us in brilliant circles.
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In dreams, the porpoise remains in memory’s waters, a pale divinity who nourishes the fire and deepest cold of all the black waters of my history.
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Where can a man run or where can he hide when he looks behind him and sees that he is only pursued by himself?
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As I applauded, I knew that it would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.