Pier
Honk if your hands have been here
on the railing where mine are now
I plant some thoughts on this pier
for some future person to discover
When I lived near the water
my words were of the water
slippery and in love with the less-tightly
composed land that it could carry away
in fingerfuls
I explain this to the water
The water nods and responds in fog
That first line is great, and its humorous aspect contrasts wonderfully with the rest of (the more serious side of) the poem.
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