May you forget your life

Categories: Poetry


From the current issue, Matthew Nienow’s “It’s the Boat that Haunts You”:

And so it is, the boat has come to own you,
has learned to speak a language you cannot help

but agree with, its voice the dark lapping
of water against the hull, its song the wind

in the stays while you sleep, dreaming of a bowsprit
to hold you against the waves

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