By Jack Joseph Smith
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The poem weighs rhyme against dream, sea against land, and adventure against disregard, letting wind and water carry away a speaker who does not feel he deserves the larger world.
It has a sad self-measurement to it. The page treats poetic form as one possible correction to moral and emotional negligence, with the source spellings `disreguard` and `differance` keeping that correction visibly imperfect.
Rhyme Is Better. Wooden and lost, against a dream tossed. When I do not deserve to be with the sea, let the streams and rivers capture my horrible disregard for adventure. The difference between the lee and the other way — the wind takes.