. . . auction
one sketch
of the stormy
petrel
one set of clothes
not to be worn
during the voyage
one log
of the harm
that came
you
miss
a man
so much
music
for Haul
On the
Bowline
slop
chest
small
stuff
prayer
book
Green-
lander
with
a stitch
through
his nose
coin in
his mouth
his custody
broken
holy
stone
at feet
sailmaker
stitches you
inside a sail
last to
touch
your craft
slipped
starboard
pig
on
foot
does
no
good
to stay afloat
to assure
identity
one pot
of ink
one paragraph
on a miscellaneous
custom
quit
the
American
shore
quit
the
shore
of Green-
land
miss
a man
pot of
wood ash
box
of blank
cards
beef bone
sculpture
deducted
form
wages
what
you
bid
seldom
mentioned
in leisure
his form
forecastle
slip
cliché
poor guy . . .
the oath
and the laugh
boom
skylark
flicks a card
in another’s
face
Copyright Credit: Stacy Szymaszek, “. . . auction” from Emptied of All Ships. Copyright © 2005 by Stacy Szymaszek. Reprinted by permission of Litmus Press.
Source: Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005)