Fax X

Today set sail like a cruising ship

taking us with it, so we waved goodbye

to the selves that we were yesterday

and left them ashore like a memory

while we launched out on the open sea,

we’re travelling! The breeze grew stiff

so we grabbed the railings, tasted the surf

as the sky came toward us, the equator noon

a place to pass us, while the tropics of tea

swung over us and straight on by

as time kept sailing and we hung on,

admiring the vistas of being away

while the shadows died down from the flames of day

and we coasted around a long headland of sky

and into night's port while, out in the bay

tomorrow called out like a ringing buoy.

~Gwyneth Lewis