Francis Marion State Park

My head is not the perfect fish body.
You’re more than a tamarack, more
than heat and hair and hostility
toward your body. I’m more than
a trip North, more than the finality
of divorce, more than the name
I wanted back so badly. Your snout
shrank. Now you only have a nose.
But I can still feel your coil–
copper and gold.

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