Two AM Port            R Edgar 2004

 

 

 

Torn sky, nets resting

Shrimp boats, ocean oils

Vapors in suspension

Boat lights in reflection.

 

Everything here absorbs you

Everything here is more home than you are.

Everyone here is elsewhere

This is complete before you.

 

Down below   the fish swim.

In the black                 the tides rise

Ocean swells             like heartbeats

Waves reflecting search lights.

 

Everything here absorbs you

Everything here is more home than you are.

Everyone here is elsewhere

This is complete before you.

 

Deep port night

Sail on the sand.

Warm viscous wind

Smells of salt, dark musk gardens.

 

Torn sky, nets resting

Shrimp boats, ocean oils

Thumb smears a scratched face

This rusted watch, packed with sand.

This rusted watch, packed with sand.