Night Patrol
Sun starched craft
drift on gentle swell
as life shivers
in uncertain blackness.
Thin tightropes cross stars
of certain constellation.
Blue tidal charts
roll below rusty lanterns
heavily placed
by know-it-all seadogs,
rum 'n' seaweed
gurgling in fat bellies.
Dividers point out lines
of curving latitude and
longitude straightening,
fields of fraught light.
The girded mesh signals
adventure in port holed surprise.
