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Your Sky All Hung with Jewels

Daniel M. Shapiro

    The man sat alone with more dread than water to drink. He chose to run out the clock rather than help the plan, rather than follow the instructions for how to build a boat from fear: 1.) Fashion the threat of war into booms and masts. 2.) Cover the threats in opaque sheets that shimmer as they hide. 3.) Exclude the deck; plan to levitate passengers over water, to make them look down. 4.) Swing an overhead lamp from a wire; tell them it’s the moon chastising the sea. 5.) Hire a captain who won’t say a word, who will never show his face. 6.) Let your boat be propelled by the promise of rescue, of well-earned closure. He took pride in remaining on land, sharks surrounding him only when he closed his eyes. He thrived on the failure of sleep.

 

*Title is a lyric from “The Killing Moon” by Echo and the Bunnymen (#9 on UK Singles Chart, 1984).

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