This Airship, This Woman, This Dream

The last US Navy dirigible
is underwater now after flying
New York-to-California and crashing
in the Pacific. It’s invisible

a thousand feet down, but indelible
darkness is cut away by imaging
built from sonar sound and white light probing
by a remote control submersible.

The Navy’s last rigid frame airship crashed
in 1935 and it’s never
going to leave the sea and fly again.

Like this airship, to a boulder I’m lashed.
This woman comes, my organs to sever.
This dream is for my next flight to begin.

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Monterey Bay National Marine
Sanctuary: USS Macon