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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