deepundergroundpoetry.com
< weather buoy 46035 >
at 56.91 degrees
north latitude
and 177.81 degrees
west longitude
weather buoy 46035
has served faithfully
for 27 years
reporting each hour
to a weather satellite
(itself in a vacuum
subject only to
solar storms)
just what the
cold waters
of the Bering sea
(and the mirror sea
of air above it)
are up to
all 19 hours of
summer days
and
winter nights
through gales
and calms
and passing whales
through sea ice
as it scrapes
the yellow paint
from its sides
27 years to meditate
in the circle of horizon
in the heartbeat of waves
in the perfect point
where all else
falls away
- - -
National Data Buoy Center:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
[/font]
Published 6th Jul 2012
All writing remains the property of the author. Don't use it for any purpose without their permission.
likes 5
reading list entries 1
comments 5
reads 856
Commenting Preference:
The author encourages honest critique.
Anonymous
- Edited 6th Jul 2012 11:49am
6th Jul 2012 11:16am
Lonely place to do ones work...but, somebody's got to do it!!!
Nice Lemmy.
Strider
Nice Lemmy.
Strider
6th Jul 2012 11:54am
I'm sure that buoy has seen some sights. Repetitive blues, greys(grays) and whites they may be.
What a soldier. Nice Ode. :)
What a soldier. Nice Ode. :)
7th Jul 2012 3:26pm
3rd Aug 2012 8:30am
Of course even the buoy's lifespan is just a tiny blip of time in the long run, but it certainly gives our limited human brains a tiny taste of what eternity means. It leaves me with a powerful, almost dizzying feeling akin to vertigo. I've read a lot of your stuff here and on wordbiscuit, and in my opinion, this is one of your best pieces.
10th Feb 2014 9:21pm
