Beyond my upper deck <br />Before the open bay <br />Large houses line wide canals <br />Persistent molars of a near edentulous jaw <br />And there in swallowing darkness a glowing <br />Fishlight underwater <br />Lies left off the dock <br />Of the distant enamelled dwelling, circling <br />About in silence in my eyes <br />Fixed upon a pale green pelican <br />Searching for his dinner, a late arriver <br />In this Iapetus Ocean remnant <br />Enveloped in black sky warmly broken <br />Rounding pensively staring into <br />Soupy light where fat mullet stray <br />To the right glowing ember coals I see <br />Churning engine cones ignited <br />Throttles boosting white hot <br />Jet tangos and call sign egos <br />Slipping forth in silent air <br />On the horizon ahead well spaced pews <br />Tall energy lamps turn darkness <br />Faint ugly blue, just the horizon, though <br />Despite my gifts, they would not forgive <br />My betrayal at this strange juncture <br />He veers slowly about as I search <br />Dilated pupils and wide open eyes <br />A hiding mate, screeches aloud <br />Cenozoic cry for food fragments <br />The night and catches me <br />Were any man or woman to survive <br />Such an oblique arrival into antiquity <br />To face such creatures <br />Unarmed, with bare hands, I raise up <br />Keeping away from the light <br />Turbines subduct below ground <br />Thumping mullet nudge my neck <br />In this Area, the wind dies down with evolution <br />Son of Archaeopteryx scans the chop <br />Visibility poor, he paddles in slow <br />Clearances pulse to steeple top, cracking out <br />Pelican green, Pelican go<br /><br />Tailor Bell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-tethys-late-groom/
