EMBER AND NIETO
What do they call an oasis
at sea? It's very hard to say
because fresh water is needed
for an oasis - the desert kind
anyway. But there must be a
name for a vision while sailing.
So many explorers have had them.
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I knew two sailors, Ember and
Nieto, who would come to port
every so often and describe an
ordeal: The dancing, spritely
vision of something they'd seen
on the water. 'Sirens?' I'd question,
like those things mentioned in
the Odyssey? They'd say no,
not that.
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I'd then wonder if that's where the
word 'siren' came from, as we use
it, a noise, drawing one in, an alarm
of voices, something to catch the
attention. We have such things too;
on land, or sea, little difference to me.
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