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Seascape with Memory
Posted by: petersz (98.207.174.---)
Date: January 21, 2022 04:41AM

Seascape with Memory

I scrape shells and guts off the deck in the morning.
Every night’s fishing leaves its detritus.
Every day’s trip into town
Brings with it remains of a sort as well:

The leftover life of reaching out
To a hurt people, day after day…
Friends, lovers, strangers
Who wish to be left alone,
Wish to come closer,
To not touch – withdraw and move away –

From the table, their own loneliness,
My loneliness…something that touches us
Across the table, across the casual conversation…

With no climax, no dénouement, no point:
There’s no code in our speech,
No need to decipher want or need,
Just the morning light reflected from the innards
Of another day fishing.


Re: Seascape with Memory
Posted by: les712 (71.93.236.---)
Date: January 22, 2022 12:59AM

Good one, Pete, I enjoyed the read.

Les


Re: Seascape with Memory
Posted by: petersz (98.207.174.---)
Date: January 22, 2022 04:01AM

Thanks, Les. I do come from Boston, you know, 3 blocks from the beach.

Peter


Re: Seascape with Memory
Posted by: larkinabout (81.104.201.---)
Date: January 24, 2022 10:50PM

Ahhh a good ole fishing analogy.

I do come from Grimsby, you know, "europe's food town" ha!

Nice one Pete.


Re: Seascape with Memory
Posted by: petersz (98.207.174.---)
Date: January 25, 2022 03:08AM

Thanks, camus.

Good to hear from you. Hope to see some of your work soon. I missed you.

Peter




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