Salt seeker Poem by Mark Boog

Salt seeker - seeing tall waves with wide eyes,
not knowing how to catch. But in the stagnant
the selfish only find themselves, and of silence

the dregs. Salt seeker! What lives off salt lives
elsewhere. These silent waters, running deep.
Salt seeker, dig here, dig elsewhere, don't dig,

condense the bays and crystallise the clear springs;
your salary, your just reward, you will or won't elude you,
such as the fox the dogs, the deer the hunt, man his peers.

Translation: 2006, Willem Groenewegen