my mother’s mother’s (first draft)

my mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s mother

[more mothers]

walked out of the sea a million years ago

[check timescale]

and now I find myself dreaming back in that direction

the sea as far as the moon-touching horizon

[and there is nothing to add]

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