He did not know (Prospero's Isle)

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Praia Sacho, Fernando de Noronha archipelago, off the coast of Brazil: photo by Bjørn Christian Tøorrisen, 2006

He did not know

it's the same old trick

every time; that

in the mystery

waves

speech makes, the world

and mind

are pitched up on the rocks

Prospero did not know

how he got there

island vacations

are like that

Wake Island: NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) satellite image: photo by NASA, 2005