Shift in Nature

A bleak shift in nature,

inadvertent change of plans,

helm slipping from the hands:

the surface of Neptune.

A clear beam of moonlight

slits the ocean's wrath.

The vessel without a path

makes it into the bight.

  

Stern Fortune

A waft into the whirlwind, vesselled within a thin, wobbly film; unanchored, unmoored.

Unwittingly drifting towards a prow, where all flanks knot into a dire fate. Beheaded and all at sea; lying ahull, until inescapably becoming aground.

On the wharf, a long legged steward waits for the uncomplaining passengers to disembark.