Of Ahab and Helen

This poem is about the sea's mysterium tremendum. Its unassailable poetic property.

Argosy...a bejeweled swan decked in the riches

of material world.

Body of water unending, tangled in biological

hierarchy--Agamemnon's fateful net.

Sodden to pending depth--forbidding save for

cursory glance.

Blent black, greens, blues covet their color--

invoke static tone.

As it is here and there a secreted navigation

plumbs, fascimile of sky.

Where wave walls glassy calm to ripple, sure

this thrust to near global proportion.

Stoic rhetorical question to land--whose implicit

question mark hooked Atlantis.

This pensive strew, overlay--horizon's sutured

cusp...hazy scare of seagull tossing hale Mary.

Of Ahab and Helen, whereupon to round the

bend of their will cannot be sought here.

Down in niche of sand where starfish spreads

its forehead, beholds enlightenment as sifting

shafts of sunlight...sinking.

Meridian's mime ebbing and flowing as an

everlasting kiss--so tender God's heart swelled

seven seas.

Konstantinos Mark

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