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2 Poems
By John Grey<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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CRANE BEACH<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

To think, within sight of Boston to the south,
we have a beach all to ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a city barely a truck\u2019s rattle away,
we\u2019re secluded in this long strip of shoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forest behind, the Atlantic at our toe-tips,
we leave footprints in the sand,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

observe a random race of sandpipers,
follow the insane crisscross walk of a crab,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

misidentify a shell, grapple with seaweed,
and wallow in the remnants of sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many people converge on Beantown,
but they neglect to come here for which we are grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have all that business to attend to.
Sure, there\u2019s business here but it\u2019s voluntary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one says, check how cold the water is, but I do.
I hear no orders to examine that tidepool<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but I bend down on my knees, watch all
this activity that\u2019s just a finger ripple away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s like a mini version of what\u2019s going on in Boston.
Once again, I am close but apart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRI-STATE AREA<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I cross the border from Rhode Island
into the northeast of Connecticut
and, from there, into Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re in and out of three states
and it\u2019s still the same song
on the radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country\u2019s small in this part of the world
and the map is cozy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Grey <\/em><\/strong>is an Australian poet, U.S. resident. He has been published in <\/em>New Plains Review, <\/em>Perceptions, <\/em>Sanskrit, <\/em>South Carolina Review, Gargoyle, Owen Wister Review and<\/em> Louisiana Literature, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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