Invocation by Orlando Ricardo Menes

Invocation by Orlando Ricardo Menes

The sea swaddlesthe forlorn,the disaffected, the misunderstood,all the human flotsamthat modernity flushes awaywith dreams’ debris,jettisoned joys, dregs of hope.But the sea is beneficentand will not colludeor be coerced and thus its currents,swells, and Coriolis windswill float the unlucky and the unblessedtoward that leeward islandcalled Grace unknown to maps,charters, or regimes of powerwhere earth surrenders to the sea’s wisdom,its keenness …