2013 Contest
City University of New York / Labor Arts
“The slave deck of the bark ‘Wildfire’” by Harper’s Weekly, date illegible (1800s)
Ships and galleys were the original Skull and Bones Society.
People, sold, wholesale: “To the Trade Only”
The Atlantic—
watershed moments.
Mausoleums in
wave after wave after more waves
Still.
Atoning for nothing
the indifference of the surf
the irreverence of the tides
a co-defendant
the Sea offers up
no audible apologies.