as in seawater, medicating the burns of fighter pilots;
as in brine, turning olives from bitter wood into ripe food;
as in tears, pouring from browneyes at a graveside;
as in mineral-laced water, after a fevered night;
as in healing, and preserving, and feeling, and restoring;
as in everything that salt on the fields
and salt in the wounds
and deadly salt shackles
on a small grey bird
are not.