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sure one/ might descend/ a ladder in/ water, creaky/ really
like an evasive/ oarsman, and could/ even carry underwater drapes but/ shouldn't
pirouette/ near the calamari/ -- or simply eat/ a sack lunch while the locals brush
some bricks off: sandy/ scrapings:/ splashings: brightenings/ -- the shallows
deepening the sun/ the widths not/ exactly old-Turkish, their/ specific Christ
wild, portable -- this certain/ space named: a bronzing/ a coating coating the boats naming
the lampposts -- Christ/ splashing Christ and tombs/ and tombs and there
are shudders/ -- the tombs the tombs how they/ don't sink
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Once affiliated with the Byzantine Empire