The shipwrecks,
say the locals,
off its windward side
number in the hundreds,
its windward side
where the ocean
drops immediately
to a depth
of three hundred feet
beneath its cliffs
of solid,
vertical granite
rising to a height
of one hundred ten feet,
both the steepest
and the highest
of the Atlantic seaboard.
The mammoth sea swells
battering the granite
are spectacular,
ideal
for the lurid,
whether sightseer
or suicide.
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