Semblance

  "Salt, sea, and air are we ..." Words become the very waves on which the vessel sails in this collaboration with poet and writer, Eleanor Perry-Smith. As a nod to history, the poem was written in a sixteenth-century English manor and crosses the Atlantic in its use of Spencerian script, the first American-style penmanship. This script was first inspired by the flow of moving water; it circulates back to its original muse in both form and function as the script becomes the sea. The words themselves are the image and their cadence lulls like water, sending out whispers of a sailor’s tale.   Semblance: "Salt, sea and air are we who wander 'cross the globe, Yet tale be told and night behold the hour my shadow froze   Voyage set as those before crate packing merrily, We pushed from port forevermore but unbeknownst to me   The tide set high, vessel set sail sun skipping on the waves, How can it be this shining sea is also host to graves?   My thoughts turned bright and chest filled tight