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I Wish I Had an Island MAG
I want to build myself a lake isle,
I want to build myself a boat,
I want to build sunshine,
I want to build a day of endless hours.
Welcome to my island,
in the plashless, soft-hearted, mama-warm, rippling, tender blue lake rippling with the ripples of my oars.
Welcome to my island.
I have built a cabin here,
and when the winter comes and bees fly home,
I will skate on the lake, I will skate away.
Welcome to my island,
welcome to my pine trees sticky with sap, welcome to my sparrows and honeysuckle and soapy-smelling violets in my windowpane,
welcome to my island where dragonflies sail above my bed,
fill my hands, fill my head —
dragonflies in shimmering blue chrome.
If I die, it will be on my island.
Here the mosquitos have lost their stings and apple biscuits drenched with milk and honey
are served for breakfast —
forever and ever, amen.
I will come back to my island — it will come back to me.

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P.S. Emily Dickinson is one of my favorites
Inspired by William Butler Yeats' "Lake Isle of Innesfree." The word plashless is from an Emily Dickenson poem.