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"Meditations on the Art of Distance, No. 2"
On the phone, our voices steal the melancholy
of sailors,
lost and cast adrift
in foreign seas,
our conversation a list
of unspoken longings.
But it is our hearts that know the truth of things,
and decry the morse, morose convenience
of this careful S.O.S.
"Live," they say,
"Have faith,"
"Believe."
"Speak your poems into these bottles
and seal your breath within.
The sea, she will deliver them
in love,
in trust,
in time."
[first published in New Bard Press, Drive, 2004]
˗ˏˋ・。☆.・゜✭・. AUTHOR'S NOTES ✫・゜・。.・。. ✭
We live in an age of instant communication, of voice and video travelling farther and faster than the speed of thought, leaving our laggard synapses weary, wired, and wide open.
Know that some words are like curdled milk and sour grapes—wretched in their hour but favoured by friends and lovers if they're only given time to ripen in their casks.
