SARGASSO


 this migrant urge
 swims in your blood

 where are we born
 Ismaels
 travelling steerage
 to tell tales

passage
 paid in the quests of others
 long before

 I pack
 with my third century
 of expectation

 nose lifts
 to the sky
 and the ship
 strains to be gone. .



 Elaine Savory
 University of the West Indies
 Cave Hill Campus
 Barbados