Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SAILING, by CLARENCE MAJOR


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First Line: Helping her with her knots
Last Line: Together against the breakers
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


Helping her with her knots,
I spread my sails in her storm,
put up the clamp,
put up my mast,
the clamp on it.
I put down her lines,
keeping my trust
in them -- in the storm before dark.
We anchor and watch
our different ropes move
back toward our last turn
in the water. We time them
together against the breakers.


Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org




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