Tidal Basin Review, Summer 2010

Page 32

NIGHT VOYAGE

James O‘Brien

Only much later remembered, her fingers, softly, plate‘s edge, discreet, plucking one fry from the tangle slender hedge, salt-tuber transgression ... ... boundaries also crossed neatly on(e) some evening hour at sea everyone safe-stowed, forgotten, sliding leviathan blackness, neptune‘s swell; shoulders swift monstrous while icebergs split sleep-frozen eyes.

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