A landfall when all seemed lost ...

I was woken by the ship's engines -

They'd suddenly roared into quivering grinding life -

It was just before five in the morning -

I lay on my bunk, remembering the dream -

There was a memory of escaping arrest -

Murder cars in the street -

A forged passport -

A briefcase -

A passage across an ocean -

A cabin like this one -

My heart beating fast -

A landfall when all seemed lost -


May 2019

On board East Meets West
Off the Lycian Coast
Turkey