Vessel

What is a vessel?
a ship
for safe passage over choppy seas?

a bottle
bobbing restlessly on the tide
preserving thoughts on paper?

a vein
through which
oxygen and
blood
intermingle
rushing nutrient to
heart,
mind,
arms, legs,
every extremity?

smooth bendable plastic
wrapped around twitching live cable wire
a means of containing electrical current
if only briefly?

a beckoning tunnel
discovered
on a cold windy path
a warm quiet cover
providing shelter from the elements?

What is a vessel?

safe harbor? time capsule? conduit?
passageway?
safely, tenderly
taking you where you need to go.

Vessel.






Image of painting by Nathan Florence. Oil on Canvas 2000.
For more information about the artist www.nflorencefineart.com