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August Regatta Afternoon

William Doreski

Not like shark fins but napkins
folded on a banquet table,
their sails fleck the horizon
where the sea mists into the sky.
You want to know who’s winning,
but from our canvas lawn chairs

the boats look like punctuation
without a text to support them.
Gin and tonic simpers in glasses
frosted with a fine sweaty fuzz.
The yacht-club waiter nods at us
as we acknowledge his little smile.

This is how the gentry live—
the polished hulls of their sailboats
glossy as a glimpse of the future.
They never race for money
but for tiny plastic trophies
a child would scorn. When they dock

we’ll learn who won, if we care.
The salt breeze gusts to maybe
fifteen knots. Little danger out there,
gulls corkscrewing overhead,
red buoys and black-painted groaners
bobbing in the wake. The gin

sparkling in our frosty glasses
suggests how bottomless the sea
might seem to one recently drowned,
but over your right shoulder the crest
of a wave looks so plastic blue
anyone might walk on it.

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