WaveSon.net 8

    repeating his beat, his cadence,
    with my tail,
    so opening a channel.
    A channel only open, not a code, no

    message, for him
    to break. I fall away
    from his design and say
    to myself, so, we must meet apart

    in a time
    of no tomorrow, no pleading, no art,
    time of waiting, a miracle mer-main
    of hallucinated hearing.

    Fin(-ger) to finger, I shiver,
    am calm: the reef embraces the water
    that wears it



    Bio Note
      Stephanie Strickland's manuscript, V, won the 2000 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot won the 1999 Boston Review prize, and its Web version was chosen for an About.com Best of the Net award. True North, her full-length hypertext poem from Eastgate Systems, won a Salt Hill Hypertext Prize. She is the author of the print poetry volumes True North, The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil, and Give the Body Back.

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