The Curve of the World — for World Poetry Day, March 21

Last Friday, 21 March, was World Poetry Day.

Tis a little belated, but here’s The Curve of the World for you today, to celebrate poetry and human creativity:

The Curve of the World

Summer breathes
through marram grass, salt-tough
where the southerly whips in
off the Pacific, light &
shadow all the way out
to the distant smudge
of albatross feeding—at night
you see lights dance,
squid boats fishing
the same spot.
The larger ships, too,
follow the albatross road,
tall towers disappearing
beneath t...