A Beast Washed Ashore
White Hinterland

'Neath the leaden lidnI saw your facenAshen and pale as you walked awaynAnd I stayed behindnOh, where'd you gonDearest friend of minennCan you recall the lurid scene of savagerynThe sea beast belly-up and beachednTwice as long as a seven mast shipnnThey took him apart with pliers and a cranenOh they took him apart, though it took several daysnAnd they took him apart and the townspeople camenAnd chit-chattered awaynnThe sky that night seemed laceratednEach cloud a con- contusionnSome wade in the water to wash his bones offnI wade in the water and I watch 'emmnThen they stack him up on a pushcartnHaul him off to the maritime museum nnThe horizon boasts a widowed lightnThat punches pinholes 'tween the sycamores and pinesnAnd through the sodden bogs I make my way back homennThe biddies of the town can chew this tale downnAnd gnaw it into skeletal scraps 'til fiction is factnSee the truckling trees, bare in the airnBut for struggling kitesnOh, his bones are bleached, laid out on the trucknHis teeth are brushed and his mouth is shutnHis bones are tied with twine and screwsnPut on poles, hoisted up in a roomnnI recall looking once 'neath your lidsnTo a universe full of startsnAnd the days drag on awfully longnWhen you're not one who can carry onnChit-chattering awaynChit-chattering away

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