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Out of Water

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Gustave Courbet, The Calm Sea, 1869. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

after “Abajo del Agua” by S. Llach

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The Pacific Ocean at night, seen from inside a bus full of strangers en route to Dominical by way of the Interamerican highway. This is what I’m thinking about now.

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