Isabel Szurlej Poems

Once upon a time sailing ship
Was beached on ghostly island.
Helmsman William Lee was the one
Who didn't die in the wreck
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The ship like a well-dressed woman:
Slender and fast,
Ballasted well with a crowd of men around her.
She moves forward and her sails rustle
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Enclosed rings whirling around,
Uncertainty yanks guts of demons.
You and me crucified by night, breathing hard
In the cold and steely moon.
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