The sea by night is a beast of a different nature

Sinuously moving around the harbour wall

A snake, a boa, suffocating granite barricades.

It slips and mounts like a lover

Crashes home, then silent, waits.

An enemy, a mystery, oily, oleaginous,

Creeping deeper than fate.

In innocence boats rise and fall, as if sleeping.

Starlight sparkles and the to...

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