Barbara Ann O'Leary
Homer On The Aegean

migrant wind blows in.

knuckles scrape along the sail,
wrapped tight, bolted
down, immobile.

eyes, soft blinded grapes,
harbor memories: sticky blackness
of tar, coating the ship’s hull;
translucent blue-green water,
tugging at seaweed and barnacles.

syncopated shudder halts then
thrusts ahead. fingers search for
braille’s contours along the stilted mast

motionless in the sea.
 

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