Moody Adolescent Girl Gets Attached to Poem Found in School Library, Neglects to Steal Book
March 4, 2008 3:25 PM 
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A poem about a girl tearing up a letter and throwing it into the ocean?
I encountered this poem 12 years ago, in some sort of collection. I have the feeling the poet was female.
The content goes like this: a young girl receives a letter from a boy, then runs to the sea, tears up the letter, and flings the pieces into the water. Part of her motivation for this, was to keep her mother from finding or reading the letter. The tone is upbeat, and not at all mopey or somber, if I remember correctly.
I can't remember much of the lines. The narrator may or may not have referred to the ocean as some variation of "big, blue, bounding". And the girl may have been tearing up the letter so her mother couldn't find the letter, or read it, "no, never".
I've been looking for the poem, on and off, for several years now. I have decent Googling abilities, but nothing of the sort has ever turned up upon my searches. If you can point me to this poem, despite my shoddy memory of it, please end my Eternal Search of Frustration.
