Holes Within the Holes
Holes Within The Holes
(nautical in nature)
A hole in the dark
The ship sank apparently
Unseen or something paused
Passed briefly through a lightning strike
Perhaps there was no ocean
Or hole in the ocean worth noting
Being it was dark
No witnesses, no survivors
No evidence between the flashes
So what is there between the light
Was there a floating box of dynamite
A cannon sitting intransigent at sea
Where a sun drenched sky was not
Above, so clear the missing sky arrives
Hangs out wireless above the awkward
Over water, a soup made of smoke is fog
Less tangible to the touch when landing soft
Drowning becomes a mystery
A blanket of saltwater, sprinkled with people
Alive or not about a floating box perhaps
Was this just a juxtaposition to the mist
What can be said about a ship
Drifting in and out of memory
Underlying the surface stands a sandless beach
Holding the ocean with a shore line incomplete
In contemplation, in contempt of land and masses
Cast out, stretched on a string to pull it all together
Perhaps an evaporated puddle formed at first
Or invisibility came to call before the birth of oceans
Between the space that serves serenity or both
A hole within a hole within a circle
In the dark where circles form
Where mushrooms have no names or rooms to call their own
Because there are no places left to grow amazement on
Worlds with no corners rotate through space
They form smooth edges with opinions razor sharp
Sink in the middle of the oceans agitation
If only they were strong enough to lift the fog
Into boxes safe and sound much larger than themselves
Sandless beaches make good company
For ships lost below the surface shallows
Wondering how they got there in the first place
Holes inside the holes inside the circles
Sunk to the bottom fall about
Deep in thought about tomorrow's questions
Of holes inside the circles hollowed out
Copyright © Earl Schumacker | Year Posted 2019
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