To say the ocean
Churns
Misses something
Implies a central
Centrifugal
Origin for
The autonomous
Reflective movement –
Desert land
Locked
Arid releasing
Wet into air
Surreptitious, days
From ocean yet there
Invisible agencies
Drifting dust to slake –
Time wants water and friends and heroes
Space wants water and lovers and death
Mercantile man strings rope round the planet
Tethered to tracks where the stars’ shadows trod.