At The Top Of The Swell: Off Bonita Beach, Florida,30 April 2005

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Dennis Ryan

Wellsville, New York

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Wellsville, New York

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At the top of the swell, it all came back
so suddenly today; and when I dove,
it was that dive, diving with them all
again on Deadman's Reefoff Freeport,
Bahamas.Tell me why the swells
haven't changed in thirty years?

Dennis Ryan

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Topic(s) of this poem: diving,image,images,islands,lifespan,memory,ocean,ocean waves,psychology

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The speaker of the poems notes that while diving off Bonita Springs, Florida, in 2005, he envisoned doing it again with friends in Freeport, Bahamas some thirty years previous.The poem speaks to the power of memory and the ability to envision the past, its images, clearly at times.

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