by Janet Hatherley
after Henry Reed
Today we have naming of seas. Yesterday
we had the Gulf of Mexico. And tomorrow morning
we shall have what to do after firing. But today,
today we have naming of seas. Orcas
are circling in all of the neighbouring oceans
and today we have naming of seas.
This is the Gulf of America. And this is it
clearly on google maps, whose use you will see
when flying at night. And this is its origin, Mexica,
named by the Aztecs in the language of Nahuatl.
Sea otters float on their backs eating starfish
which in our case we cannot do.
This is Greenland, part of the kingdom of Denmark,
with an easy flick of the pen. And please do not let me
see anyone using his finger. You can call it quite easy
Red, White and Blueland. The little auks
busy in black and white, are diving and flying
and having no use at all for fingers.
And this you can see is the button. The purpose of this
is to open the breech, as you see. We can press it
only once. We call this ending all things.
And here in the boreal forests, gray jays are nesting
in winter, eating the stores they’ve repeatedly chewed
and stuck to the bark of firs. They call it easing in spring.
They call it easing in spring. It is perfectly easy
if you have any strength in your eyes, to annex Canada
and make it the fifty-first state, and the point of balance
which in our case we have not got, and the narwhals
signal in all of the seas and the herring going backwards
and forwards. For today we have naming of seas.
