Wednesday, May 28, 2014

ON THE TREACHEROUS NIGHT SEA

artwork: william marr
ON THE TREACHEROUS NIGHT SEA
by William Marr

a broken refugee boat appears
like a ghost
on the tired sleepless eyelids
jolting and rolling
toward the ever-narrowing harbor
of humanity
toward the shore
where lights die out
one after another

~ previously published in Between Heaven and Earth
  (PublishAmerica)