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Waddell Creek Beach, California, USA

 

Fiery bronze

and copper-white cliffs rise

motionless

against the mighty

oCean blue

 

Black granite sentinels stand

in anxious waters

unmarred

in austere pose

 

Restless and daring

the waters thrash

amid rock

sand and stone

whetting a wilted past

 

Blankets of worn bells

cling tightly to the black

clay bedrock

in the shadow of towerin...

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