AucklandPoetry.com presents Poet Resident JAN OSKAR HANSEN on http://OSKAR.AUCKLANDPOETRY.COM

Monday, September 17, 2007

failed mariner

Failed Mariner.

I spent time staring at
the ocean and sensing
its heave, at night too

I gazed at the sea, “night
and day, you’re my love,”
now wasn’t there a song?

sent ashore, bad reports,
unsociable, speaks to no one,
doesn’t play cards

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