“Voyage of the Beagle” by Peter Schireson (poetry ’17)
An excerpt from “Voyage of the Beagle” by Peter Schireson (poetry ’17), published by Vox Populi.
Voyage of the Beagle
It’s midnight, and I
am a dotted line.
On the bar tv, there’s news
of another spill, and a cold front
from the Arctic,
because there is still an Arctic,
followed by pictures from Syria—
bony lips, black and green, of children
gassed, eyes staring, blue tongues lolling.
