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| Topanga State beach, Malibu, CA |
Do not stifle me with the strange scent
Of low growing mountain lilies---
Do not confuse me
With the salubrious odor of honeysuckle!
I cannot separate in my mind
Sweetness from sweetness--
Mimosa from wild white violets;
Magnolia from Cape Jasmine!
I am from the north tide country,
I can understand only the scent of seaweed,
Salt marsh and scrub pine
Riding on the breath of an amorous fog!
O do not confuse me
With sweetness upon sweetness;
Let me escape safely from this gentle madness--
Let me go back to the salt of sanity
In the scent of the sea.
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| Sta Monica Bay,we had rain today..this being the driest year on record |
DONALD JEFFREY HAYES
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