Seasight

Painting by Lucassen Zeegezicht (1939). Original work to view in Amsterdam.

The Mediterranean is impossibly huge
front to back sea
no walls
but sky.
[I can’t imagine casting yourself off into
the future of something so improbably big].

Unending water and
the split in the middle of your eyeline [the ploughing ferry].

The depths inconceivable
and therefore not thought about.

A thoughtless casting
of scenery
calling a future
Unknown.