This poem is taken from PN Review 246, Volume 45 Number 4, March - April 2019.
Four Poems
The Nordeney Dykemaster
Little inlet, my legitimate
backwater, low tide
will about bear my front wheel’s weight but not quite
so I make the jolly
Wattwurm jump out of its sandcast
as I visit, four miles off, friend lighthousekeeper.
Lighthousekeeper
is manoeuvring
a giant bulb upstairs, but has a candle
burning on his kitchen table
I keep company.
Friend candle, Herr Wineglass, lost moth,
let’s call each other du. Mud pools
disintegrate to mist, it is
an alright night.
...
Little inlet, my legitimate
backwater, low tide
will about bear my front wheel’s weight but not quite
so I make the jolly
Wattwurm jump out of its sandcast
as I visit, four miles off, friend lighthousekeeper.
Lighthousekeeper
is manoeuvring
a giant bulb upstairs, but has a candle
burning on his kitchen table
I keep company.
Friend candle, Herr Wineglass, lost moth,
let’s call each other du. Mud pools
disintegrate to mist, it is
an alright night.
...
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