Screaming, screeching, tantrum horn —<\/p>\n
Startled sleep,<\/p>\n
rocking left and right, gyroscopically down, up, a seaman’s lullaby,<\/p>\n
some days.<\/p>\n
A piece of it, towering, framed by sky’s dimmer-blackness,<\/p>\n
alone, jagged, 3000 feet cone, piercing shark’s teeth shoals,<\/p>\n
cresting waves,<\/p>\n
terror moonlit, postcard perfect,<\/p>\n
some days.<\/p>\n
Phosphors flickering on then off, sideways wake<\/p>\n
of 100 feet of double planked oak hull, under gaff rigged sail, made some place else.<\/p>\n
All hands<\/p>\n
on the gunwales, halyards, helm, sextant, compass.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Where had it come from? The push and pull of blame off South America.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Caribbean currents, pushing, roiling around fragment of Venezuela?<\/p>\n
Deadly seas, always there, not feigned playful by a Norwegian,<\/p>\n
or whatever cruise.<\/p>\n
(Can I swim the mile,<\/p>\n
or is it three?<\/p>\n
survive shoals, sharks, and eat kelp and crab until,<\/p>\n
Until when?<\/p>\n
Some day?)<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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