fiancée
Little Fiancée Of The Atlantic
car crash coma at 17 at 20 first trans-atlantic
solo sailor florence arthaud dead at 57 remote
gorge argentina helicopters touched briefly then
fell to the ground filming the reality show
DROPPED
a hero in france her eyes fierce beacons
inscrutable glare stares out of front page
news hair leonine mouth screams don’t
fuck with me skin leathery wizened brow
the whole of a story is never told when she was
a girl her passion was to catch a bird countless
hours spent crouching in tall grass her father said:
if you can shake salt on his tail he is yours
birds filled the sky on the day she died birds guided
her over the frigid+black atlantic they carried her
out of the gorge yesterday at dawn arthaud slid gently
+elegantly into ceres gravitational embrace a dwarf
planet with a dusty outer crust+a rocky inner core
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Winter 2015 20 days to Spring
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