Heather Kirk
Haibun: Stranded in Moonlight
I have closed the door on travel, traffic and the day. Though the jolting of the train and lurching of the ferry are ebbing from my limbs, the mind takes time.
a tiny flame
filling up the room
unwritten poems
A passing car, faint voices, then hush. Night is slower, darker here
a perfect frame
for the rising moon
- avocado leaves
Through the conservatory, dots of the town below and further out in the Channel lights of ships like ghost stars where the horizon is lost. Brightly decked continental ferries, pinpricks of smaller craft, taking who knows whom, where...
candleglow
and through the glass
a winter moon
I recall the morning’s radio, hearing of tropical fish shipped to colder climes, picked off after stunning with cyanide, for fashionable folk seeking tranquillity. I muse on livestock, parrots, slaves, a cargo of hapless refugees forbidden to land anywhere ... our compulsion to move all that itself moves ... moving or being moved ...
passing cloud
the moon reverts
to round
And even as I seek stillness my thoughts travel on. One day, it is my fancy, the ocean will carry us all away, with wordless eloquence, to an unfathomable destination.
Tonight, a single dream
weed strewn
the old fishing boat
stranded in moonlight
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