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WATER WOMAN by JOSEPH AUSLANDER

Poet Analysis

First Line: HAVING LIVED HERE SO LONG, SHE
Last Line: WHEN SHE WAS DONE.
Subject(s): BIRDS; SEA; WATER; OCEAN;
Having lived here so long, she,
Being what she was, the daughter
Of a man who drowned at sea,
Talked like water.

To her speech water gave
Something that was not in words:
As you hear the lonely wave
In sea-birds.

She, whom none could quite possess,
Washed cool with salt and sun,
Took the sea like a caress
When she was done.



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