about the author
William Robison is a Professor of History at Southeastern Louisiana University (Hammond) specializing in
Tudor-Stuart England. He is the co-author of The Tudors in Film and Television (forthcoming), co-editor of Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England 1272-1483 and Historical Dictionary of Stuart England 1603-1689, and author of essays in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and numerous other works, as well as articles and reviews in a number of journals. He is also a musician and a maker of short films.
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D’Boat
William Robison
Fenestrated urchin
sees a round-and-round boat
Speculum Gemini
hydroquatic vortex
Octopoid oracle
atop taut tentacles
gurgling gibberish
udders bubble utters
Aloft a crimson disc
hovers in the ether
fugitive is breathless
it follows like the moon
Window shade silhouette
profile cinematic
mutely nods good evening
sill icicles chilling
Retrograde somersault
lazy levitation
flitting ‘bout the village
Soaring o’er rotten docks
Hosing meat market walls
mopping liver puddles
Ham’s sweet savor lingers
long after Noah sails
Boy in the batter’s box
wasps infest the hedgerow
Dark Mary waits on deck
glove oil in the dugout