vessel
poetry by ian mcbryde
published 15 april 2007
originally published by retort magazine
 
verse live | volume 1 • number 1
 
"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls." -Voltaire
 
published since April 2007 | Verse Live centers on the publication of new poetry.
 
 
Ian McBryde was born in Toronto, Canada, and has lived and worked in Australia for many years. His work has been published in England, Japan, the USA, Germany, Canada, Australia and Belgium. He has performed his poetry throughout the world. His fourth manuscript, Equatorial, was published in 2001 by Five Islands Press, and he is recording new material. McBryde is married to poet Jordie Albiston.
 
 
 

 
 
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McBryde
 

"In our weariness, tears cannot find their way out of us."
 - Andy Jackson
 
 
I am flesh wrapped around all things unwept, I am
salt water, brim-filled. No weary gulls any longer
 
land on me to rest, even briefly. This reservoir
has no outlet, no closing shore. An eternal twilight
 
greys the waves, awaiting the hush and solace
of nights that will never arrive. Bottomless, without
 
fish, the reservoir patiently awaits a current,
a cleansing tide, anything that can move its thick
 
and sluggish depth. The echo of invisible bells
ripple this surface, doubling themselves as they
 
sound out horizons that simply are not there.
There is no raft, no boat, no trusted rope.
 
And so I walk the dry world, liquid-skinned,
drowning in slow motion, just here, inside myself.


 

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