Shipwreck

Shipwreck

Oh, cellar of red!

Now, as time
tips a galley,
I say “Oh!”

A spill.
               I’ve dared
no wine. “My men?”,
I wonder.

A devil lips “Ahoy!”

As I yell a gasp,
it emits a wonder

for all:
             echo!

Pedro Poitevin

Shipwreck