Monday, August 10, 2020

13,048. EMBER AND NIETO

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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