What wharf has neither metal anchor nor heavy coils of rope?
\nFarther down the Thames is a bridge once favoured
\nby prostitutes for its low guardrail, the ease of descent,
\nthough other, unmentioned girls came to prop a heel
\non its cold steel and so divulge a shapely calf.<\/p>\n
Which is to say that a search of the dock would find the usual
\ninstruments of restraint, but of such strange material
\nthat though their forms would foster recognition, you’d yearn
\nto touch them, to weigh in a palm the anchor that could not
\npin a bird, the rope as light as a mouthful of fruit.<\/p>\n
Hard science might explain the boat’s fidelity by reckoning the waves’
\nrelative stillness, the craft’s weight, the distance of the moon.
\nAnd as for “soft” science, the -ologies of more- elusive chemistries,
\nleave them to speak amongst themselves with a shrug
\nof your pale shoulders, with the memory of one deepening kiss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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