This is the summer of deadwood clearings just past the marshline,
\nthe river a moat along Highway 64. Of daylilies along the dividers.<\/p>\n
A summer to visit Blackbeard\u2019s hiding place, his last inlet battleground.
\nFor a few months he burned through its waterways<\/p>\n
and now a dozen shops in town consecrate his grave with flags:
\na spear, a heart, a skeleton \u2013 but what you remember is the hourglass.<\/p>\n
This is the summer to walk Ocracoke\u2019s sand, a line in the water,
\na long island where wild ponies live in a pen behind two fences<\/p>\n
by an observation deck. But you see the white horse in the next paddock,
\nwatching the whole scene. She remembers the beach across the highway.<\/p>\n
If you look close you see translucent crabs sneak back
\ninto their holes, see shells like fossils from some astronomer\u2019s treasury.<\/p>\n
And at night the ocean sky opens, a thick web of light,
\nand you stretch your eyes and arms to count each satellite and star mid-arc.<\/p>\n
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