Monday, May 31, 2010

In Fathoms: Dreams and Soundings

East Gloucester Liminal- Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown,
acrylic on canvas, 2009

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Avoiding the wreck
that lay at 30 fathoms
we nonetheless stirred
something from the bottom.

Stranger and
darker than any old bones--
we could not say
what it was.

But between blue basin
and silver shoal water
our captain could
thread the needle;

Through fog now, to Brown’s Bank,
where we arrived by morning,
in time to set out new lines.

-Kevin Macneil Brown



<a href="http://kevinmacneilbrown.bandcamp.com/track/in-fathoms-dreams-and-soundings-part-one">in fathoms: dreams and soundings (part one) by Kevin Macneil Brown</a>