Pulling Up Stakes
With struggling, and distraction, and private chuckles, I started
collecting my things
into bundles, for portage to the sea,
will bring sand and wine stains on the pages, addresses of other
nomads, figs, a bag of gems, paint my eyes with kajal against the
evil eye (may end up in a city!)
incomprehensible scrawls on matchbooks (who the hell Was that?)
which I stuff into a pouch of to be continued
my tent finally collapsed in on itself, and with thin tin poles and
canvas flapping, I dragged the lot to my little ship; one
sail, becalmed seas...
c>So I sit here now, just a ways from shore,
the metal grommet ring
at the end of the one sail falling against the mast, repeating a
drifting sound,
an I sit with blank pages, thirsty already, and I am not charting
a
course so much as feeling my way to a beckoning land.
I will dig deeper, in some far away,
what, get my hair cut,
disappear,
nibble on my small stores,
and dream myself into the milky way.
Can hear lonely buoys with their sun battery fed bongs, like Tibetan
cow bells friendly but unseen
To tell the channel to tune into.
tuning again, through the scrimshaw and static of old old and new
undiscovered,
just wait for a wind.
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