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This is another structural note about the ship's water line rather than a finished poetic statement.

Its repetition across nearby pages suggests the writer was fixing a visual or technical detail in place. The page functions like a reminder to the manuscript's future self: where exactly the sea meets the ship matters.

A twin of the prior page, the sea-wave cue minus the third line. The repetition itself becomes part of the meaning, as if the wave needed to be set twice before it could arrive.