Wednesday, February 10, 2010

R.I.P., Jonathan Lambert of Tristan da Cunha

in one month
I will die

in a boat
though I sailed

eight thousand miles
to reach this place

(which is nowhere)
from bustling docks

smelling of salt
cod and sulfur

unfamiliar with irony
nonetheless I will

watch lonely clouds
scud overhead

as every mile
winds backward

and darkens

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