Thursday, August 15, 2013

Now I live here, another island

A new volcano has erupted,
the papers say, and last week I was reading
where some ship saw an island being born:
at first a breath of steam, ten miles away;
and then a black fleck—basalt, probably—
rose in the mate’s binoculars
and caught on the horizon like a fly.
               from Crusoe in England - Elizabeth Bishop
 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fabulous!

Anonymous said...

Fantastic and gorgeous!

R_P