Fabliau De Floride. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

It was very good to hear Wallace Stevens reading 'Fabliau of Florida'
on a compact disc. A fabliau is a verse tale, often comic.
This is a magic scene on a beach in Florida, with waves and surf. The poet asks the barque to sail to heaven, into the 'night blues'. The sultry moon-monsters are dissolving. He asks the boat to fill its hull with white moonlight, which is a symbol of how he, a young poet, wants to reach a higher level of thought and language. He wants to soar in his poems, not be earth-bound. Then the poem ends back on earth at the beach, where 'There will never be an end/ To this droning of the surf'.
What brings this poem to life for me is the mention of the beach and the pounding surf, which beckon me to take up board-surfing again and regain the feeling of youth. I also would like to surf on Florida's beaches.