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Poem: The Gulf Gives Fair Warning—at Galveston Island

"You've built your beach homes..."

by Lynn Gilbert

May 24, 2024, 8:00 AM, CDT

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2024 issue.

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To submit a poem, please send an email with the poem attached to [email protected]. We’re looking for previously unpublished works of no more than 30 lines by Texas poets who have not been published by the Observer in the last two years. Pay is $100 on publication. Poems are selected by Poetry Editor Lupe Mendez, the 2022 Texas poet laureate and author of Why I Am Like Tequila.