Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Northwest Passage

to Ms O'Leary


Doctor John Dee
read four thousand books
and spoke
to Annael
in tongues.

She was his muse
and Spenser's virgin queen.

Together they scryed
a darkened way
to a manifest
destiny.

Through chartered
companies
and bartered ships
they struggled
beneath sea-green
ice
and beached
one fateful day
as castaways
in auriferous
Cathay.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

*dance* I like her but......I am going to have to read her several more times, before I can fully understand her.So how can I like her you say. I just do.