Tag: ocean
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And out come the sharks
Planks come loose from the trireme’s flank Like a flooded arena on the Emperor’s birth night Flaming men jump over the side and into the sea Bodies which sank the same regardless of rank Are set upon by shank-jawed blood magnets Magnates of the brine planet, baleful magistrates Whose every gavel check is a pronouncement…
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Caught in a net
I am Dictys, on deck like a casette or undived divers pearl-minded Airtanks shining, shrining their delicate survival beneath the brine Wine of the Flood, Wine of God’s Cruelty, forty nights capsizing Drowning mountains, crowning seas, fulfillment of prophetic pregnancy Solar lips kissing a trapped fish, real-time rictusing Heat such as cat’s hissing arouses from…
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Sharks II
Blur, static, frantic action Antony’s legs flapping after Actium Stalking shark phantoms wearing Octavian’s smile Sea clown, how cowish seen below yet given a torturer’s soul. Mired, wading happily in Verne dreams Through the aspic of the sea Staring upward, sharks moving ceaselessly Untiring conveyor of rage and teeth From this angle leant almost comic…
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Below the sharks
Dark without abounding I am with flounder lounging Dark within, founded in my foundling heart Black as a foundry chimney’s throat and windpipe. Shark sighted from below Idiot’s rendering of an angel Strange, stumped, pale, crippled Ill-equipped to ferry heavenly missives to trickster mankind. Seen from where I am In the damless places My Atlantean…
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