Friday, November 14, 2014

The Gales of November, Temperance River


Sea Fevers

No ancient mariner I,
   Hawker of public crosses
Snaring the passerby
   With my necklace of albatrosses.

I blink not glittering eye
   Between tufts of gray sea mosses
Nor in the high road ply
   My trade of guilts and glosses.

But a dark and inward sky.
   Tracks the flotsam of my losses.
No more beclamed to lie,
   The Skeleton ship tosses.

-- Agnes Wathall

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