Poetry – Issue 5 | June 2009
Passage
by Carly Wray
The pilot boats that
blinker the bay
await employ
envoy
greater ships to usher home
to sleep in slips and you
slide in beside me, to
chart the swells.
So standing stern we number
siren panes like
lighthouse lanterns, making
bright the wakeful yards between us
and the ferries
now fareless
for which we once
spared sums untold.
Now darken this flag, these
imposter squares and in signal
bend red light
over white
on our bows that want to break
in deeper seas: in here
you say, the narrow mouth may
swallow us whole.
About the author
A native Texan, Carly Wray has slept at a bus station in Tralee, a monastery in Venice, and many a Gulf Coast rest stop before settling in Brooklyn. She has an MFA from the University of Southern California.
Read our current issue, Issue 5 | June 2009:
Poetry
Berlin by Sy Margaret Baldwin
Two Poems by Sean Edgley
After Your Funeral I Set Out to Find You in Different Time Zones by Jennifer Faylor
Painter by Ricky Garni
Other Than by Dana Guthrie Martin
Two poems by Timothy Kercher
Five Views of Guanajuato: A Mythology by Athena Kildegaard
Two poems by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Goya by Trent Nutting
The Changing of the Flowers by Jennifer Saunders
Two poems by Ken Turner
Postcard prose
Buttons by Jennifer Faylor
The Enemy Tree by Kirby Wright
Escape on the Canal by Addie Zierman
