Bateau Bleu

         The boat, the waves and the timepiece can take you anywhere you want to go

                                  - Dorothea Tanning, on her surrealist lithograph

Here is a watch.

A woman watched.

Double-iris eyes,

cradled with birds' eggs

and crystals of crumpled

waves. False starts.

A girl

stepped into pink

with grotto at her back,

crawled from pits of black--

draped in the cast-off

and built of scrap,

she is hatched

she is

holding the clock face high:

a journey spreads

on stone.

                  copyright 2008 Jennifer Gomoll Popolis

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