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Click hereThe big unfinished ships squat on the beach,
bodies on their backs, bare ribs
bemoaning lost faith, so I
hurry past to something simpler,
clinker-built, water-tight, well-
suited to shallow ponds or
chalk-streams, easy to work with
adze and chisel, stopping my ears to the
ghost groans of the oak that
might have taken me out to sea.