Sea

[vaneramos]

How I sail when feeling you want me!
Crossing oceans inside you
with swollen mainsheet
to burst at last on intransigent rocks
where you can blow
and shatter me all night.


This was one of several new poems I wrote last month for An Elegant Path. I felt uncertain about it at first, so it didn't make the cut, but with time I'm liking it more. I don't see it as part of the larger poetry cycle to come later, so it's posted here as an addendum.

I am such a water creature. And how last summer's camping trip fed my craving for the ocean!

Comments

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

Van, even if I don't always leave a comment, I really do enjoy your writing. :-)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

The enjoyment is mutual. I do wish we had more time. Do you mind sending me your mailing address? You can use the email on my info page.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Bruce. I'm feeling a bit out of it this morning, but hope I get to see you this weekend. Maybe we'll make it out to O'Grady's this eve. Are you planning to go?

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Yikes, sorry to hear that. Rest and get well.

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

The image is a powerful one, Van. It resonates.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you, now come and lift me from these windblown rocks. ;-)

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

I need a cigarette after that. And I don't smoke.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should wear a condom when I write poetry.

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

Nah, I prefer raw verse myself.

(feel so dirty now!)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

!!!

[tim-e-bear.livejournal.com]

very sexy - the poem, that is. :)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thanks.

[tim-e-bear.livejournal.com]

Well, you are too, but my prime response was to the poem. :)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

You are hot, too. ;-)

[tim-e-bear.livejournal.com]

Thank you (esp. for the ironic winkie that undercut it all ;) ).

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

The winkie was intended as flirtatious, not ironic.

[champdaddy.livejournal.com]

brief and to the point... like a hand thrust into my britches.

thanks

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Mmm nice, let me keep it there.