Description
Ian Rockel’s third collection of poems meditates on family and other intimate relationships, and although never morbid, has many reflections on the state of the planet and on mortality itself. Gone World follows What Know You, Stars? (2017) and This Was Then (2019).
Ships
They are always gone
when I reach the door,
ghost-fading into fog,
heart slackening at their going.
I seem to have lost myself, again,
in the grey web of living —
yet, hearing the rise
of heated seas,
did we sense that ship
come home again?
or find no recognition
of its depth
as bergs dissolved
into its hull?
