{"id":524,"date":"2010-01-24T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=524"},"modified":"2010-01-24T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:18:00","slug":"karen-kelsay-is-having-thoughts-in-a-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/karen-kelsay-is-having-thoughts-in-a-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Kelsay is having thoughts in a boat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Childhood Thoughts from a Boat<\/span>
 <\/span>
Damp with Pacific breath, my pillow<\/span>
is lit by a fringe of moon. A sequence <\/span>
of waves from a departing boat sloshes<\/span>
against the hull and jars the closet door open. <\/span>
Bells chime along the bougainvillea-tangled<\/span>
hill that juts above the harbor. Scents of mildew <\/span>
and vinyl hover near musty life jackets <\/span>
stored below my bunk. Plastic mugs, with anchor <\/span>
designs, creak together on the rack; the dinghy <\/span>
bumps against the stern. In the bow, I zip <\/span>
my sleeping bag and listen for phantoms <\/span>
and sea sprites; those unseen entities <\/span>
that capture children by lifting an unlocked hatch, <\/span>
and pull them off to feed.<\/span>


<\/font>* Karen Kelsay<\/span> is a Pushcart Prize<\/span> nominee and the author of three chapbooks A Fist of Roots,<\/span> Somewhere Near Evesham<\/span> and Song of the Bluebell Fairy<\/span>, published by Pudding House Publications and The New Formalist Press. Her most recent work has appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Linnet's Wings, Flutter<\/span> and Tipton Poetry Review<\/span>. You can read more of her poetry at http:\/\/karenkelsay.com<\/a><\/font>
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