#1032 - ship whimsy

 

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ship whimsy

ekphrastic for Orest Keywan’s ‘Wake’, at Sculpture by the Sea

(Bondi – Tamarama)

 

no sails

dark ship

 

and me with the breeze

stone sculpted

 

reminding all moon is an inch

stars mere points

the sea goes on

 

I love it most

when they make me imagine

 

drift breathlessly you crowds

up these far stairs

 

icon of how once

our filthy cargo

 

built in a bottle of air

and lap

 

such swell surges

best of heart

sky such too

 

as if from time, sea

equally detached

yet tied with this hawser of steel

 

here we are, of all, to remember

 

every voyage a question

and distance unadorned