The FAB&PP Poem of the Month for December 2006
Two Poems for December
(subtext: Dylan does
Redbone)
| 1. i watch and wonder in the morning light [the fog lifting the monuments emerging] when will i rise and let the day lift dissolve into tomorrow on its own [the ferry calls into the morning] when will i abandon a life narrated stop doing start being sequence without con sequence [the ferry leaves a wake dissipating against the shore] |
2. trying to float knowing only how to swim ineffectually thrashing in the surf stand up in the soft sand face the horizon or lie back and slip slip away [or face the shore again and again the sunbathers talkers young lovers old walkers who knew how to float (you think) but choose the shore the loud radios and children and uncertainty of crab shells in the sand] thrash about steady yourself wade on against the moon and tide |