[lit-ideas] The blowing of glass
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:36:46 -0700
You wish to make a glass sail
Thinking you've mastered the boat?
I once leaned over a rail awash.
We were beating into the wind
Taking each wave over our bow.
I would have said now look
At the tautness of your task.
If you could see through spray
Hitting your face till your eyes
Bled salt blurring your vision,
Then grab hold with your mind
And let it swing you to each
New direction and you might
Eventually run before it.
It must be nearly shear
From mast-top down
To its cleated-sheet and reeling
Against the ocean's feeling;
Buoyant as you hold it
Looking out its portal
Glistening full of your seeing.
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