Sunday 23 November 2008

Rain boat

The rain boat passes,
Over a fluid sky,

Grey and rust-coloured:
Moulding smoke

And tipping the boulders
To float off outboard.

Drizzle is thrown up by
The wash of its passage,

And the oil it drips
Slicks a skein of colours

Flotsam coloured
And mutlicoloured.

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