Rock Harbor by Carl Phillips

Author:Carl Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466880085
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

FOUR

TRADE

Bending—as no

flower bends—

casting the difficult rule

of his attention upon an elsewhere

that accordingly broke open

into a splendor that, too,

would pass,

I am resigned,

mostly,

said the emperor,

to a history between us less of loss than,

more protractedly, of losing—

and, having said as much, said

nothing else to the man to

whom he’d said it;

whom, for years now, he’d called

variously paramour,

consort,

sir; who, for

himself, said nothing;

who from where he was seated could

see, and easily,

each at its labeled and color-coded slip

moored slackly,

the bows of the ships of the Fleet

Imperial, about which

what he found, just

then, most worth admiring it

is impossible, anymore, to

say exactly:

the trim of them,

flawless, sleek—reminiscent, in

that way, of almost any line from Ovid; or

when there was wind,

how the bows tipped,

idly,

in it;

or the stillness, afterwards,

that they found; or the way they seemed to.

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