Love this Colin, not quite sure about the line breaks but it reads well.
Only quibble is that coalfish should be one word.
Best
Roger.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin dewar" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: newsub/poseidon
> Conversation with Poseidon
>
>
> Seeking to show Earth's treasure to another
> I have flung to the waves
> what I loved on land.
> This done I found
> all transformed in the image of the sea.
> The scarab beetle became a crab,
> the winter blackbird turned to coal fish,
> fields of hay were sea grass
> and the rice grains, pearls.
> Finally I flung to the waves the sun and moon
> but they too drowned in those fertile depths,
> becoming a tapestry
> of watered light.
>
>
>
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