sleeping with the ocean
a mere foot from my head
the ship at port / anchored creaks, lines grinding / groaning
I hear the neighbors either side
Intimately
have you read
a common topic so uncommon
elsewhere
"I'm dying to be a better reader"
like digging a hole
I like going to bed
or lying on a beach
back below, in my berth
I hear steady breathing a few feet away
only a thin wall separating our heads
her boyfriend's in crab school
yep, they giggle
unlike the couple with Southern accents
from Florida
the knitting picked up again
I'm going to sleep
[I'm falling asleep]
and so is most of the rest
finally
how many times will I be up
in the middle of the night
the head's up on deck
I'm glad it's not raining
or heavily foggy
though we're sleeping at sea
it's calmer than a water bed
creaking and thumps
more likely my neighbors
than the interplay of planks and sea
yes, somebody's bones
now, for that damned mosquito
or some scratching overhead
who just dropped what
on the deck above me?
a shutting door
with a latch
and shuffling
who's securing the gear
in the dusk?
what a still, calm spot she's chosen
for the night
3:30 am, a nearly full moon
scattering sound of steady traffic
the other side of Isle au Haut
(the south)
may simply be the water motion
there's definitely surf other side,
slight breeze, 1 mph?
to the west
can barely see Polaris
light cloud cover
only one plane overhead
on the European flight way
and the flash of a fishing boat
light array
in the gap of Deer Isle
what's all the noise around me tonight
besides a stray cough
or zipper
are we really that restless
I have no idea what the Patriots
or Sox
did over the weekend
though they've been spiraling downward
light snoring in my ear last night
I had the most erotic dream
of someone who in reality was almost well
This could become obsessive.
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