As a songwriter, I sometimes have thoughts or ideas that wouldn't particularly make a good song. This is the outlet for that stuff...

Monday, July 9, 2012

Ramekins


White as bone

Half buried in sand

In three orderly

Rows

Their wooden cupboard

Casket

Has dissolved

In the indiscriminate brine

These salvaged shells

Now on display

As they were found

The ship that bore them

Still decomposing

Leaving nothing but

Anomalies


2 comments:

  1. Al, sorry I had to look up ramekin, because it sounds like a sea creature but found, A ramekin or ramequin, also known as a bouillon bowl, is a small glazed ceramic or glass serving bowl used for the preparation and serving of various food dishes. The word is from French (as ramequin), and before that Middle Dutch and Middle Low German. So the dishes described in the poem are from a shipwreck? Steve

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  2. They are actually from the Titanic. We saw them at an artifact exhibit just as described.

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