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Click here to print. Or, you can return to Ruston, 1972.
forty-three feet above sea level
on a landfill peninsula
shaped by sediment and slag
a copper-smelting smokestack
melted nylon stockings
off backyard laundry lines
a mile away
seahorses curled
in tidal pools
we sat on old bath towels
creosote and kelp
our backs to the waves
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