Tag: boat
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Seasick

I pluck him from the Atlantic. I find him drifting in a metal trap, his legs scattering back and forth. He wants a taste of air, I want someone who wears a shell. He is my Maryland blue crab. … Five years later, he is drying up. I can see his gills expanding, aching for…
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Lobster

“Let’s go to Maine.” He said through a text from across the country. We had broken up over a year ago, yet the text lingered in my mind. My thumb hesitated over my phones keyboard, holding onto a response. I pictured the two of us in a creaking house on the coast of Maine. The…
