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Todd Fredson
Todd Fredson’s poetry and non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry International, Blackbird, Court Green, 42 Opus, American Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Gulf Coast, RUNES, Slush Pile and other journals. He is the Director of Programming at the McReavy House Museum of Hood Canal. He lives in the Skokomish Valley, with his wife, Sarah Vap, and their sons.
 
By Todd Fredson
Published on 05/12/2010
 
the shore ruffles.      The hem of a slip

the sleeper 

is pulled out into the middle of his most beautiful dream. 

the shore ruffles.      The hem of a slip

the sleeper 

is pulled out into the middle of his most beautiful dream.  

Pulled from the impression his body has made. Tremulous,

sleep next to sleep. A wisher who calls out our desires.

Tremulous, stacks them

and rolls us out to sea.