Porta Poems #5

A NEW ELBA

Out at sea

Invisible things

Keep me company

A spirit

A cool breeze

A new moon

Could have been

Memories of you

Too soon

My heart pumps air, my compass spins

This far from the shore

Alone in my work, alone in my dreams

Untaken, untransformed

I plot, I row, I row, I plot

Prepared for every divergence

My decision isn’t urgent

And comes as the sun slowly emerges

I’m going to the place

That can’t be seen

Beyond meaning and means

Beyond light

I stack some words

I slant a few rhymes

Don’t make me feel better

But it helps pass the time