Literary Orphans

Myrtle Beach Tides by Lee Landau

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Alligators speckle lagoons

brightened in early light

born on sun-seared days.

 

Low tides caress Mimi’s thighs.

Last quarter mile her feet

trod beach into white talc of sand.

 

A brown lab puppy buries her

in sand. Sifted, coated flour

bakes her well done.

 

Crabs skitter to the shore line–

share space with a lone teenager

now wrapped in waves again.

 

Headed toward the Atlantic

runnels of water violently part

as she hugs her raft.

 

She fights hard to turn home

without a paddle, arms

sweep aside the ocean current.

 

Too much undertow draws her

down, she clings to raft, prays

for the down drift to lower tides.

 

Rescuers find her body

near rip-tides, bruised

skin shorn by rock and jetty.

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This poet writes with raw honesty about her personal landscape, interaction with family events, those dysfunctional backstories. She shelters emotional trauma from the snowy winters of Minnesota that spark her imagination. She writes about obsessions, both large and small that tumble through her poems and life. Her early life was spent in Raleigh NC and Myrtle Beach, SC. Place has always been an important concept to Lee.

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