 | The Sunday Poem: Earthquakes and OceansOctober 15th, 2006 |
The land is under the sky
And the ocean is under the sky
But the land is also under the ocean.
Beneath, the grumbling tectonic heave
Of molten earth, breaking angry creases
Open in what is really a very thin skin,
Reminds us of the narrow shell
Covering all great heats. It is like that,
When I see her, and I feel the cracks
Open, tremors crazing, until to say
Anything is a quiet earthquake in me.
I could break—
But the sky is over the land
And the sky is over the ocean,
The sky everlasting.
The ocean is dammed within,
Ready to flow and beat its waves
Against any shore accessible,
Full and patient,
Waiting.
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