Coracle

Downriver,

Nearing the sea and thrashing tumult,

The Great Undoing of all the structures

That kept me afloat

Are set to fail.

I foresee the danger.

My purposes uncertain,

My compass awry.

Currents and eddies have conspired

To whirlpool each dizzying step

And threaten to drown me

In a vortex.

My destination grows unclear

Before my journey is complete.

A spinning coracle

Adrift on a crashing sea.

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