#1856 - what does an anchor weigh?

 

1856

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what does an anchor weigh?

ekphrastic for Peter Godwin’s 1979 ‘Looking West from Millers Point’

 

something for blood

and something like soil

 

bounce of a buoy

cloud’s toll too

 

there’s no time here to catch or patch

 

a tree lean edge

motion incised

 

down underwash

 

some of these just shadows

 

I hear the tug’s tall horn

I think it’s another day’s colour

 

there must have once been fish

 

we have made too much of the sky