Island
They say it is five hour’s journey to land.
Five hours to see blue and green waves of salt.
Five hours for one blurred picture of seagulls,
Five hours to observe today is meeting
Tomorrow in a thin line of off-white.
Five hours to see, casually, human.
A too short time span to ponder on life,
Flashes of patchy memory and swigs
Of cheap wine, red,
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