The Sunken Lightship
by
Peter Makuck
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
American Poets Continuum
ISBN-10
0918526744
ISBN-13
9780918526748
Publisher
BOA Editions, Limited
Imprint
BOA Editions, Limited
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 27th, 1990
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
297 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.20 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry by individual poets
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"Peter Makuck''s poems derive, as most poems do, from the sharings and losings of human relations..." -A.R. Ammons
Sound Buoy
It presides
Over our passing
In and out
Of the Bogue Narrows.
We rise
From sea gullies
And watch it sway
To a mindless
Humping of waves.
In soft seas
Its moans
Are more our own.
If I name it
Red Nun of the Narrows,
The pleasure won''t last,
For it turns unruly at a whim
And will outlast our coming
And going.
Once, alone,
In wild weather,
I felt
The wallow and topple,
The fit of its color
In close thrashes,
My tongue
Salted and stunned
Into a silence
That burned.
© BOA Editions, Ltd 1990
It presides
Over our passing
In and out
Of the Bogue Narrows.
We rise
From sea gullies
And watch it sway
To a mindless
Humping of waves.
In soft seas
Its moans
Are more our own.
If I name it
Red Nun of the Narrows,
The pleasure won''t last,
For it turns unruly at a whim
And will outlast our coming
And going.
Once, alone,
In wild weather,
I felt
The wallow and topple,
The fit of its color
In close thrashes,
My tongue
Salted and stunned
Into a silence
That burned.
© BOA Editions, Ltd 1990
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