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Honorable Mention
Seaman’s Club, Antwerp
Michael Julius Sottak

free internet
and blonde biere
the bus runs out
the low coast
to the docks

the eyes are different
from Dijbouti, Nigeria,
the Phillipines...

Pieter studied in Vermont
all he could remember was the green
overwhelming green rolling out of sunsets
and rises and valleys...

his eyes sharp and young
his wife alone on the North Coast
of Poland, waiting...

he laughed with me,
how he shortened his name
so Americans could pronounce it...

we became kin that way

years apart

my disciple without preaching~
his face flushed with mirth
when i told him...

"getting there is all the fun,
not the money,
false trophies~
look at these eyes around us,
it's the adventure,
we're the one's
that never lose...

eyes of Jakarta,
a rapsody in Rasta
white teeth flashing
in neon wash above the diesel hum...
"Hey, Mon, dis mine~ pier 21."

racked concrete and rusty containers
pot holes filled with ice
empty pallets stacked
against warehouse 42131
halyards ring to crescendo
in North Sea Wind
funnel down the halogen stalks

money

a rat scurries across tarmac
time eaten

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