It is night on the
ocean, and the deep water is calm,
black liquid glass extending in all
directions.
I sit in the back of the sloop
and wonder who wears the face of the
constellations.
I am the only poem drifting on this sacred
sea.
Perhaps I have written these intimate
lines,
but it is more likely that a different
author has written me.
His face is all around on the placid
surface of the watery night,
and I think of the untold depth behind the
myriad stars above.
I am only a man lost in lingering thought,
but apparently that is the theme of the
poem.
~William Hammett
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