Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Which Berth?




Which Berth?

Line of smoke
writes on
sunlight
            W.S. Merwin


what sort of captain do you want:
                                                the hawker
                                                or the haunted? 
                                                the rescuer or
                                                the mutineer?  stern-tag bold
                                                black or center thwart cracked?
                                                captain in to the last man
                                                or out on the first rescue?
and then, getting in, how do you
know?

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