seeing you I was suddenly on the high seas at the salt-glint of high noon all my wounds opening each scar a blossom desperate for a lime
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Sierra Nelson: A Few Facts about William Dampier, Pirate and Hydrographer
The only pirate to have had his portrait painted, A brass plaque and an Australian postage stamp. First to sail around the world 3 times, Compare the creatures of 5 continents. He mapped the waters of the world, And then he mapped the winds. Discovered that the winds were the cause of currents, And that […]
Shafer Hall & Ada Limon: What the Back of the Eyepatch Looks Like
Sometimes a light comes out of nowhere which turns the nowhere into a somewhere which makes the sea into a room and my brain stops hurting – first time in days. Walls and Walls! So nice to be held in as opposed to held out or held up, pirates like most wild animals crave a […]
Shafer Hall & Ada Limon: An Unlikely Code For Likely Pirates
Establishing credibility with our sails isn’t our game, we’re more the type to float below the radar like the celocanth and then eat your brains like the celocanth and hang our actions out to carry us away. The universe achieves balance this way, and faith rebuilds with tiny victories over itself; we plunder only what […]
CJ Evans: I Recall the Fangs of the Helheim Tempest
so many were lost. We huddled, the ropes snakes, whipping at whatever flesh they could find. Valkyries shrieked in the snapping sails. I have never since screamed & not heard the sound. Never since had such panic pried from my chest, like a boy who learns even he must one day yield to nature; learns […]
Susan Brennan: pirate puer
butterfly hair fire in both hands the long thighs of wandering a gold coin in each eye winged ears just like all my old lovers in striped pants he flings me a sword (god has escaped – quick! let’s find the fucker!) on his storm boat rain combs our hair silver shells tumble we slip […]