5/5/09

Snow Storm


















(Snow Storm – Boat Off a Harbour’s Mouth, J. M. W. Turner, 1842)

amid swathes of stinging snow and drowning wind
the defiant steamboat carves through waters treacherous

the immutable cloth of waves tightens like a noose
a ground laden with every shifting swell of mirrored grey

sky and sea reach towards each other
with the passion of lovers
wrought in anguished battle

they twist violently
clawing to feel the presence of the other
the burning breath of the smoke stack
caught between their writhing bodies

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