Perpetual passage
boarding the ferry
casting off, past consigned
to memories, on to shorter journeys now
places of fumes, oil, sullen waters
harbours below one more white city
quays clogged with sea-scoured hulls
rasped paint, splinters where fenders failed
a few small craft with painted eyes
men hope will ward off evil
though fishermen and divers die
lodge in trenches join everlasting sediment
sea slops such ports like idle minatory words –
as ropes slip bollards
I steel myself to take whatever cities
down the coast demand from me
casting off, past consigned
to memories, on to shorter journeys now
places of fumes, oil, sullen waters
harbours below one more white city
quays clogged with sea-scoured hulls
rasped paint, splinters where fenders failed
a few small craft with painted eyes
men hope will ward off evil
though fishermen and divers die
lodge in trenches join everlasting sediment
sea slops such ports like idle minatory words –
as ropes slip bollards
I steel myself to take whatever cities
down the coast demand from me
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