Sandra Meek
Still Life with Zodiac Boat and Glacier Lagoon
langue: anglais
traductions:
allemand (Stillleben mit Zodiac-Boot und Gletscherlagune)
Still Life with Zodiac Boat and Glacier Lagoon
A bowl
of white
light, spiked
meringue peaks
debris-veined—
black ash
and graveled till,
blue-milk fins
calving
into melt;
too much to stay
against, one’s
own weight borne
by speed, by wind
not weather
but the fast-
forward of a century
on fire
bulled forth
by my own eyes’
burning
toward sheered
sapphire, by
the pull cord’s
raveling wick
with which I lit
this engine, this small
blind body
of need.