1.
Tierra del Fuego
Perhaps it is the saturnine
and smaragdine awaiting us
of eerie seas and riven land
that fumes and fulminates -
a place of elements that flay,
where furies unleashed by the gales
can congregate, and ships go down
with all hands clinging to the rigging,
angels dancing on the masthead
souls in flight from their demise:
that dread cape of storm and wrack
where clouds menace the captain's mind
and sails are rent like widows' weeds
and ships are split asunder.
2.
Saint Petersburg
Or at best a cityscape in winter,
glacial canals, swansdown skies
and frozen-over seas that curl
along the strand facing Finland
on the gelid gulf. A stony island
dark and chill as flint,
a plane whose gilded spires
defy the horizontal grave's
striated snow and ice...
Saturnine and smaragdine
© Copyright: Jena Woodhouse, 2008
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