As Large As Alone

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With the monsoon finally spent, walks to the beach resume.

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maggie and milly and molly and may

went down to the beach (to play one day)

 

and maggie discovered a shell that sang

so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and

 

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

 

and molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and

 

may came home with a smooth round stone

as small as a world and as large as alone.

 

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

e e cummings

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Pictures all taken from the footpath beside Fort Cochin seafront.

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