- Non-Erotic Poetry
- U.S.S. Carondelet (1861-73)
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Carondelet cruises Mississippi
an upturned cooking pot afloat
broiling the men inside
bristling with guns
looking for fights and finding them
sluicing the blood of dead and deafened men
scouring the great
drainage of the West from
war's hopeful hoopla start to its
sullied and bitter end.
Cumberland Ohio Missouri
Yazoo Red all
belch their waters into
Mississippi's great churn and
she sailed them all (though
she barely got out of Red
caroming over rapids)
and their endless bayous overhung with trees
dripping with snipers.
She took her hits but
never lost a fight and when
they came to scrap her found
she'd gone in the night
on a flood tide, preferring
the grave of her enemies
to that of her friends.
- COMMENTS
GuiltyPleasureabout 13 years ago.....at sea, how sadly appropriate. I confess I had to Google but what I found fascinated me. "Upside down cooking pot" is very apt as is "bristling with guns".
Tess
