Voice Carried My Family by Robert Sullivan

Author:Robert Sullivan [Robert Sullivan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9781869406349
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

10 The Northeast Passage Home

Let’s leave our crew for a minute and fast-forward

to the final trip home: the grim recovery of Cook’s parts,

a chunk of thigh here, a burnt bit of palm there,

all the venerated giblets and victuals of a god. His several burials at sea.

Then the crew’s flight to the Russian Far East and the Romanovs’ Governor:

now that’s a dynasty with a punch! Europe all the way

through Asia. The news crossed the steppes in a flash and arrived

in the admirals’ hats, the imperial crown of St Edward,

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