<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" class="">Oil</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">soft rainsqualls on the swells</div><div dir="auto" class="">south of the Bonins, late at night. Light</div><div dir="auto" class="">from the empty mess-hall</div><div dir="auto" class="">throws back bulky shadows</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" class="">of winch and fairlead</div><div dir="auto" class="">over the slanting fantail where I stand.</div><div dir="auto" class="">but for men on watch in the engine room,</div><div dir="auto" class="">the man at the wheel, the lookout in the bow,</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" class="">the crew sleeps. In cots on deck</div><div dir="auto" class="">or narrow iron bunks down drumming</div><div dir="auto" class="">passageways below.</div><div dir="auto" class="">The ship burns with a furnace heart</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" class="">steam veins and copper nerves</div><div dir="auto" class="">quivers and slightly twists and always goes –</div><div dir="auto" class="">easy roll of the hull and deep</div><div dir="auto" class="">vibration of the turbine underfoot.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" class="">baring what all these</div><div dir="auto" class="">crazed, hooked nations need:</div><div dir="auto" class="">steel plates and</div><div dir="auto" class="">long injections of pure oil.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gary Snyder</div><div class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"></div></div></div></body></html>