Noah
Poem by Roger Iredale
It is a time for bitumen. A chill wind scours
the flanks of Ararat, the rain is needles
on our skins, injecting pins of bitter steel.
Bitumen comes sluglike, black, oozy; seals
the keel with bonds of tightness holding
hope below the storm.
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