Kit Kelen #1290 - midnight sun at sea

1290

midnight sun at sea

11. vii.19

on the Huirtigruten’s MS Richard With

Svolvær (Lofoten) and onto the Norway Mainland

The sun was shining on the sea,

It made the billows bright,

And this was odd, because it was

The middle of the night.

       － Lewis Carroll

aboard and in pyjamas

now we have 360°

waving shores smell fish

up all night first time for years

for this beyond romantic

slow coasts in a shining sea

it’s all for up the cliffs go trolls

where they turn the boat around

in nothing heights of stone

we of the underwisp

called to cloud

among mountains

see

some falls were frozen

some falls fell

and all blur beside rose

where the ice once went

islands and inlets

farms, boats further than lost

all of us here are through the snapped narrows

ample in our proofs

first come so far was young Pytheas

now the ancients have come to bucket this too

midnight on deck

moment seared into seeing

the pinking dip

and up sun daisy

call it day again

all of the hours are in this one

call the planets wanderers?

our sun here’s on quite a trek

you see it shifting sideways

all the slow horizon

it’s simply to tell that the world is wide

morning, so to say, dozes with fog

an hour of breakfast still

come through Pillars of Hercules

which of us

will be so remembered

from a text forever lost?

lesser tourists, lower down

are waving back to me

having left the trollfjord

and fishburger island

green all snows

for the open

how many cameras will fall overboard?

that’s luck in a wishing sea