# #weather

1 poem

## [atlantic<br>  pacific](https://chromato.graphics/atlantic-pacific)

i often wake three hours before  
your sunrise calls for a response  
logbook already soaked with ink  
we laugh, but even if we could,  
_why constrain our outporings?_

one winter day you ask for  
notes on undersea strings  
aware of both the timbre  
and tempo of these songs  
we start singing together

i fall into an evening rhythm  
talking and yes moaning into  
the phonograph, my head then  
swallowed by the brassy cone  
our voices sound better inside

when you open your ears again  
there’s so much weather to hear :  
wind and rain and quiet calm that  
lasts too long and means too much  
we keep sailing even without a map

true, land divides us more than sea,  
but these two coasts call to us both  
maybe it’s the sirens or the sounds  
of wavecrash against the shore —  
the dangers of unfathomed depths
