Distant Lands and Near
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Mark Anthony Signorelli
Mark Anthony Signorelli is a poet, playwright, and essayist. His work can be found at markanthonysignorelli.com.
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Distant Lands and Near - Mark Anthony Signorelli
Contents
36324.jpgThe Voyage of
Diego Mendez
Kierkegaard and Regina Meet a Final Time
Tamahay the Sioux
Anchises Holds
the Babe Aeneas
The Dream of Enkidu
Vera Paz
The Wreckers of Kerry
The Testament
The Victory at Quito
The Dream
of Abbie Burgess
A Sumerian Legend
Langston Blee
Daniel Carnagon
Elegy for the Poet’s Father,
Dr. Anthony Signorelli
The Monk by the Sea
Song of the
Wandering Poet
About the Author
Dedicated to my mother,
who first gave me the gift of good words.
The Voyage of
Diego Mendez
36287.jpgIn naked Jamaica, Columbus’ last crew
Sat in extremest enervation
By the side of their ocean-battered ship—
Struck there in helpless dilapidation—
And cast their eyes on the volatile sea
Where they looked for death and not salvation.
Then Diego Mendez rose and he said:
"I will cross the forty leagues of the sea
To Hispaniola, and bring us help
From the men of the Spanish colony;
And I trust for the goodness of the attempt
That our gracious lord will favor me."
So he gathered Flisco, his old friend,
And a few of the sailors fortified
Against the perils of such a task,
And some Arawak, to serve as a guide;
Then they all set out in two canoes
That could barely float above the tide.
The sea swelled flat and tranquilly
Like a plate of blue suspiring glass;
The immoderate sun burned painfully,
Unveiled by a single cloud’s thin mass;
And the tangible breeze that stirred at times
Smelled thick with mangrove and sassafras.
But the ocean current under their boats
Ran steady and strongly against their head,
So they pulled at the oars the seering day
Till their palms hard creases blistered and bled—
All day and all night, and when morning came
One man from the strain of it all lay dead.
For two more days and for two more nights,
Across the forty leagues of the sea,
They pulled for Hispaniola’s coast
Which their faint eyes searched out desperately,
And two more died, and the others looked
On their quiet cheeks with jealousy.
Still, on they toiled, these fugitive men,
To one another so little known,
With little more language fit to commune
Than a weary and labor-wrested groan,
Or the misery drawn on each taut cheek
That reflected to every man his own;
Cast suddenly in the midst of a sphere
Unknown to them, and unknowable;
Uncertain of how to find their bearing
On a trek momentous and wonderful
Through a natural frame of things at once
Gorgeous and adversarial;
In constant terror of ruinous storms
Arising upon them unaware;
In constant reliance on other’s strength—
Both strangers and friends—to get anywhere;
Fatigued to a soul-deep lassitude,
Surrounded by death, beset by despair.
Yet whatever they lacked in that arduous course
They were not deprived a mind assured
Of its righteous aims, nor a tested arm,
To every trial at sea inured,
Nor a spirit in every season inclined
At all pains to do the will of their lord;
And certain it is, whatever the cause,
Whatever the source of that tendency,
And whatever it meant in the final