Open AccessPoem
Author(s) -
Dan Thomas-Glass
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ecozon@
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2171-9594
DOI - 10.37536/ecozona.2012.3.1.458
Subject(s) - poetry , peninsula , lens (geology) , line (geometry) , art , history , literature , geography , geodesy , optics , archaeology , physics , mathematics , geometry
This poem takes the hours of high and low tide on the Mayan Peninsula during a two-week stretch as its line lengths (# of words corresponding to the 24 hour clock). Through the lens of the sea, it tries to track the affective experience of labor from Mexico to Dubai in the bodies of my family members who were making that roundtrip in 2009.