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JAN OSCAR HANSEN
Men Overboard

On a sheet of fair green ocean the crew of
a shipwrecked tanker float bobbing up and
down in a synchronized harmony. They have
got yellow life jackets on a colour that keeps
sharks at bay, not that it matters now that
seagulls have gouged their eyes out. When
night descends gentle as a blanket lovingly
tucked around a sleeping child they will be
washed ashore on a paradise island of golden
sand and coconut palms.and there they will
dry and be slim under a tropical sun till they
are lighter that the tail feather of a sparrow
then they will fly with the prevailing wind and
see what they didn't have time to see as crew
on practical ships made of steel


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JAN OSCAR HANSEN
A Wife Not Mine

My brother the warrior, died on a distant battlefield.
His wife sleeps in the garden tonight on a blanket by
the pond, she's my woman now. Gave herself to me
but for her heart and a memory that can't be erased,
when nature's war thundered overhead. In moonlight
she's a statue of ebony with a Janus' mask of hidden
longings. She dreams, smiles a beam from a heart full
of love for her warrior's shadow, as clouds drift passed
the moon. Awakes when the fiend, in the nursery cries.
I have seen those eyes before and know that my brother
will never die.
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