16 November 2017

Condition of the Sea
12 September 2017
Latitude:    44.346525    Longitude: 14.601731

Inspired by the Croatian weather service’s version of the Douglas Scale, as translated into English

Yesterday, the sea was calm,
Not quite a zero mirror,
But 1: wrinkled with phenomena.

Today is mainly 2:
Short, small waves,
Shaped.
The banks look glassy.
But we are moving up to 3:
Places of whiteness here and there,
Intermittent rustling.

For 4, the noise must look
Like a mock clap.
Not quite there yet.
No waves with many whites.

Tonight, from the south, will come the pushing,
The thick white strips of 6,
Or 5:
Marine giant
Blowing off the foam
With its continuous clatter;
Its noise is like a whirling hook.

Then crumbling,
Creating coronation,
Foam flared from sparkling hills,
Waves rolling hard and striking:
7.

And back home,
Aileen is 8,
Cleaning the peaks of all the waves,
The sea completely filled with sea smoke, stripes.

The waves cross each other
From different directions,
A complex interference impossible to describe.
Waves collapse
And heave
And wish,
Wish to look again
In the mirror.

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