Saul Bennett
Magellan's Secret Sailing
After she died suddenly he took
to taking very hot
bubble baths fall and winter
weekend late afternoons
Reading each soak a back issue
or two of major Sunday paper
book reviews lifted
from his firm's library
Entertaining at first new
suitor slyly the shyest
beam of dusky tunnel light
but soon with mind's eye
aggressiveness akin to his
business's pursuit of business
the possibility though a long way
to sale that such an ambitious
Reverse evensong naviation
of words berthing
sometimes at lasting literature
would baffle and finally
Dissipate time enabling rescue
of his young adult daughter
slipped aboard between Childrens'
Bookshelf and Science Fiction.
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For Roslyn Marcus