3 posts tagged “ship”
The Myrmidons Journey to Troy
Worship warship!
Worshipful the vessel!
Give unto him the bright red
poppies of opium
to brighten his vesicles
His mother Thetis down below
riding the rudder
How now mother?
How goes it?
Hera straddles the prow
in her vermilion cape
in her longing to be most
desired
of only one god
one husband
No means to sound the depths
no necessity
but they will be sounded for
thousands years hence
Only Patroclus may know
second sight
but keeps it hidden
even from his lover
When the ship is settled in the water
at night
he looks out at the blackness
and counts the dead
L. Simpson, Seattle, 5/3/2008
Night Divers on the Ocean
To rock upon the night ocean
The night divers and me in the ship
The moon, a work of scrimshaw shines
The palest eye seen
A dragon's pearl-orb tossed among the stars
On the rocks, a seal barks low and deep
bass to the thrum of the boat's whine
below lights tickle the waters
and a mystery is hidden from me
In the warm night below
it will be as if my mother is swaying me
as I drift off deeper
still deeper below the covers
Lucy Simpson, Seattle, 12/2008
The Trip to the Shore
How mother you peel the night
like a scale on an eye
like a rib of wood
affixed to the keel of a ship
down below the sea
which rumbles tonight
tumbles to the shore
whispers of the drowned
against coarse sand and salt
black stones and my own feet
those pale fishes
untouched by sun
Lucy Simpson
Seattle 9/2008