Essay: Barcarole

 

& so we built a ship, filled it with flowers–perhaps they were abstractions, flowers from memory but alright the ship would sail on dreams as the sailors told us 

 

Call me out pay good attention to the stars

 

Many years have we still to travel

 

& lit beneath our hearts a half moon I think it was

 

Interminably erotic on the river early

 

Time cannot be traversed with sails but we throw coins into the water

 

Me? Just fixing the syllables in song of ocean

 

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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