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Couch on the Beach by Catherine Abbey Hodges | Friday, November 24, 2017 | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

Couch on the Beach by Catherine Abbey Hodges | Friday, November 24, 2017 | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

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Someone dragged a hide-a-bed

onto the sand last night.

This morning there it sits, empty

as an open clam, clearly


slept in, face to face

with the Pacific. Less graceful

than a Massey-Ferguson

and less expected. Even the dogs,


after marking it theirs,

shake their heads. Still,

I recognize the impulse, the urge

to reach the furthest edge,


west of west, press up so close

and hard to beauty that it surges in,

then sweeps me new and desolate,

then enters me again.


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Couch on the Beach by Catherine Abbey Hodges | Friday, November 24, 2017 | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

Couch on the Beach by Catherine Abbey Hodges | Friday, November 24, 2017 | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

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