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REBIRTH PROCESS

His past-middle-age job transition
landed him in a country home beside a lake,
a good choice for a fisherman, except
he also landed in the heart-bypass boat.

Now he's climbing out of it.

It was a wet summer, and months elapsed
between his view of the causeway
bisecting an ultra-low lake level
and the current view where water
laps the edges of the asphalt.

Slap-slap-slap go the waves.