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Sailors' song

Christian Century,  April 17, 2007  by Paula Bohince

Sailors' song

   The sea tunnels forward as a hymn
   with nothing in it
   but alleluia,

   word lifted and lowered over eleven notes
   as though the sound
   were a wooden boat upon a real sea,

   true boat tossed mightily
   until it slips into utter senselessness,
   becomes lulled into pure vowel,

   timbre of the singers gone sugary and soft,
   rosy as the daily wash
   of pale pinks and mauves upon the shore:

   reflected colors of the sailors' sky,
   chorus breaking upon the watery edge,
   sailors singing of the world.

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