The Crossing
James Johnson
Coming to America
in the dark hold of a wooden ship
that rose and fell
with the swelling of the Atlantic
were mice eating of the green sickness
in a light that broke
through the rigging
the cracks in the planks, and
men and women
in dark cloth
crossing and recrossing
themselves.
in the dark hold of a wooden ship
that rose and fell
with the swelling of the Atlantic
were mice eating of the green sickness
in a light that broke
through the rigging
the cracks in the planks, and
men and women
in dark cloth
crossing and recrossing
themselves.