The 30/30 Poetry Facebook prompt was “overboard.”
Recurrent
again and again I board the boat
in my dreams, and again and again
there’s the storm and the swamping
and the shouts and the chaos
like before the book of Genesis
opens, before God sets everything
in order, only in the dreams there
is no God, no order, no time
again and again I struggle through
blankets and billows only to find
myself in bed, sweat-soaked,
the taste of marine fuel in my mouth
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