The Cruise Trilogy
serenely
the voyager's mind
-inside-
floats turquoise and free
past a stateroom bunk
painted to the deck
of a vessel
registered
in Panama.
marinely
palm and snorkel-clear images
-as advertised-
light the porthole screen
and dream beneath the keel
their wet
subconscious Carib-
being ocean.
seemingly
under Bermudic waters
-embedded in soil-
a rounded world
measures its turning
by the mind
of a voyager
asleep.
- Richard Hacken