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Diane Hine (25 July 1956)
Poems of Diane Hine
| 101. | No Elegy For Plaster Teeth (Part 2) | 2/20/2012 |
| 102. | No Thing Paradox (acrostic sonnet) | 2/17/2012 |
| 103. | Ode to a Vampire Squid | 3/14/2012 |
| 104. | Omega | 8/10/2012 |
| 105. | On Saturn's Moon | 4/16/2012 |
| 106. | Once Bitten (a trigee poem) | 3/4/2012 |
| 107. | Opportunist | 2/25/2013 |
| 108. | Outpost | 4/29/2012 |
| 109. | Pantoum: Angel | 11/6/2012 |
| 110. | Pantoum: Wandering | 3/29/2012 |
| 111. | Parrot In Paradise | 7/31/2012 |
| 112. | Patch | 3/21/2012 |
| 113. | Patisserie | 3/3/2012 |
| 114. | Pectoral Sandpiper | 8/13/2012 |
| 115. | Pedigree -new- | 5/14/2013 |
| 116. | Pegasus | 6/13/2012 |
| 117. | Perverse Poem | 4/5/2012 |
| 118. | Phthiraptera Rap | 11/15/2012 |
| 119. | Plane Thoughts | 4/9/2013 |
| 120. | Platform | 4/30/2012 |
The Cabin Boy's Tale
I write this only for my future self.
Maybe I'll trust my words if not my mind.
Our man-of-war was anchored in the deep
unruffled waters of a pristine bay.
The moonlight bathed a swathe of pearl-white sand
which split the glinting blacks of sea and palms.
Daylight revealed white threads of distant falls
and tiers of polished greens which fell away
from monolithic rust-red banded tors.
