Terns

We never saw the pump
that drained the lagoon.
We only saw fish,
drowning as fish.
And when the tide
broke over the sand bar,
the fish rose like rafts,
and there were terns —
so many terns — then the grey
iridescence of scales
under moonlight.

Image: Carlos Galindo on Unsplash

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