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Monthly Archives: July 2007

archaic ports

archaic ports
by tanner brockwell (cc) 2007
archaic ports
built in another age
the salt sea spray
with wind and way
haul a-way
bound for new glories
that age
of gold
the only untarnished metal
on the ship
straight down the hatch
your sea legs never any good
roving ahoy

and here the myriad stars

and here the myriad stars
by tanner brockwell (cc) 2007
and here the myriad stars
gathered beneath your feet
a thousand thousand
uncounted
nameless
the piercing subject of a gaze
whither would time flow
the molasses slow ebb
dark in the recess
small stream as twist the glass
dwindling time as an event
the precarious fall
slower and slower
towards invented days
to millenia
unable to send even messages
the bottle now empty
not [...]

the cycle

the cycle
by tanner brockwell (cc) 2007
the cycle
the wheel
fortune and folly
ever a season
whither the weather
choices are passed
choices upcoming
still this is the wheel

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