After the Galley Proofs

Charter

the hand

O map of fortune

golden galley, proof of a writer's wit,

the width of God, blazing and raising the Geography

like mystic braille; the staggering lover touched the stars

and navigating with Six senses on and with the sailors like an-

thologies of love

a fleet almost Anchored, a fleeting feat for acrobats of alphabets

who sending a festival into Now dared Magellan make another

map as amazed as Man.