Quotes and Poems: Day 81

Quote:

"Every journey begins with a single step. We just have to have patience." – Milly Thompson (Trigun)

Poem:

An Unknown Shore: Variations on a Fragment by Oppen

BY ANDREW ALLPORT

Cortez arrives.

he is absolutely lost

at an unknown shore.

an he is enraptured

(this is the nature of poetry

The poem:

Cortez arrives at an unknown shore

he is absolutely lost

and he is enraptured

Cortez arrives at an unknown shore

he is utterly lost

but he is enraptured

Cortez arrives too late.

the shore is absolutely barren, the men lost

to starvation and rapture

Cortez utters:

"lost."

(this is the nature of description

Cortez walks upon the beach.

the ocean is as still as a map

spread out on a table.

(he takes a nap.

All the Cortezs arrive.

all the waves arrive

(this is the nature of disaster