Ebb

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Ebb was published in Millay's poetry collection, Second April (1921).
August
Jon Sullivan, Small tidepool in San Diego, CA

     I know what my heart is like
       Since your love died:
     It is like a hollow ledge
     Holding a little pool
       Left there by the tide,
       A little tepid pool,
     Drying inward from the edge.