#1688 - 52 blue

 

1688

5.227

15.viii.24

52 blue

(instersetllar)

 

for Al Munro

 

The saddest sound I've ever heard

                               – Eric Bogle

 

 

our jukebox in the vast and far

 

this wilderness a voice

 

calling still calling

into the ink

 

a sewn up sea

plash plankton

 

this is the journey from nowhere to nowhere

no one ever sees

 

when’s a line straight?

as far from fear as

 

who’ll say ‘up the spout’?

 

time is the barnacle

 

it’s bigger than the sea

the voyage

 

here’s a portable whale?

who’s inside?

what have they swallowed?

 

it’s always further

 

every line’s a circle somewhere

 

some say deep of soul

almost all of this by instinct

 

and is the yonder blue after all?

 

it’s the wrong side of the sea

 

region where nothing, go on

lost wherever

 

deep dark

 

as far as we’re concerned

 

who’s listening?

who can read?

 

in the far

years to measure

 

one sextillion till the next star