Unreverenced Poems | Examples

The Fishermen

black may turn to gray but gray
   may not turn to yellow,

  night may turn to day, but 
  still these clouds hang around.
  
    saltine driftwood and enameled seashells  
    fracture against the course palm. 

     all those biblical sea foam literate sons wandering 
     throgh the fog.

      the unreverenced staggering pulpit's 
      half diligent, half hungover. 
    
     early in the morning they return to 
   the docks the prodigal sons of galilee.

    to curse at their sober seagull halos,
    maybe find a wooden plank for
    a familiar face.

  they are fishermen and they have
  never been so holy.
 
 beautiful as halogen lamps in the 
 corners of dark still rooms.

 wearing their bright yellow rain coats,
  they bristle gather a nets worth of 
  stories to tale later at the pub.