onesided Janus masks a ship’s figurehead

glossing naval years in wide porcelain

plastic soars as the counter terrorist threat is set high

heightened by history hardbacks

cut pages scar its portal vein

starboard sunk

I become a museum suspended below

the monobrowhorizon and beardless 

stars; the sea acts as a preserving jar of salted meat

I am swimwalking through black air

rivulet staining rudderless 

to secede

vanished stitches leave leather fragment fray

a counter melody corrodes iron

I am now sharing the air space with a tudor ship

dissenting fabric, oak, a bone

dice the size of an infant tooth 

pricked three

sundial in silt, nit-wit seaweed combs

arrowfire strength to water bait 

a cartography of seamotheaten pewter plates

a rhythm to work the rigging

finds bowing form in my late

cadenza 

directing the artifacts to my design

I am the organising principle 

rarewind blows the finding of a low oboe to the fore

an octave below the shrill shawm

to soughing to then instil

calm casing