7 hours ago
Sea-Play
How could any thing so pure
and faultless be so dangerous?
Sea-dragon’s neck, ice-white,
bent down to sip a drink
of ocean from his cloudy castle
nothing like his land-bound
brother Whirlwind sooty gray
with refuse he sucks up
gnaws and spits out
that rooting beast.
No, here’s a white mer-elephant
bigger than a headland, trunk
sunk in the sea. He seems
a playful beast, a curling column
marble wine-vine up to heaven
now that we ride iron steamships
which a twitch of steering wheel
evades him, mostly. Not
the galley’s nemesis,
rower’s ruin, younger
dragon splinters ships,
devouring sailors.
How could any thing so pure
and faultless be so dangerous?
Sea-dragon’s neck, ice-white,
bent down to sip a drink
of ocean from his cloudy castle
nothing like his land-bound
brother Whirlwind sooty gray
with refuse he sucks up
gnaws and spits out
that rooting beast.
No, here’s a white mer-elephant
bigger than a headland, trunk
sunk in the sea. He seems
a playful beast, a curling column
marble wine-vine up to heaven
now that we ride iron steamships
which a twitch of steering wheel
evades him, mostly. Not
the galley’s nemesis,
rower’s ruin, younger
dragon splinters ships,
devouring sailors.
Non-practicing atheist