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First Contact

Robert Graham 1946 (Glasgow)

A silent virgin lake, windfall trees
where basking snakes uncoil in thin surprise,
a mystery of bugs convene to spread
their moving blanket, buzz and terrorize.

A bark canoe glides snaking through the shallows,
cuts a trough. Lost in wild surmise
belief invades the wilderness; hidden
from sight a painted face, dark wary eyes.
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Written on August 18, 2022

Submitted by robertg.73901 on May 16, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB ABXB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 328
Words 58
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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