You are the ghost of a thousand ships
coral-anchored, silent as rust, hull-hugging
the evening sands of fathomless seas.
Islands move in your wake; dead birds and whales,
mountains and stars gather in your drag.
You are captain, crew, vessel and grave;
thou art God, O question mark, Great Leveler
of galactic seas, I am yours! May I roll forever,
tickling froth about your keel, curled wind
within your sail and sand beneath your hull.
Thou art God, and I a man doing small work
for smaller reasons and returns. Let me not want
for lack of a period
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