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Showing posts with label Pirates. Show all posts

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Blackjack Sparrow

 

 

When I was 21, I was in love

with someone I shouldn’t have been.

 

Rummy

on that mysterious Aztec-gold smile,

 

and featherlight promises

of pieces of eight—

 

until I got savvy by getting my sea legs

shanghaied on a dead man’s chest.

 

 

© 2025 Jennifer Wagner

 

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