weather buoy 46035
ray heinrich
at 56.91 degrees north latitude
and 177.81 degrees west longitude
weather buoy 46035 has served faithfully for 17 years
reporting each hour to a weather satellite
(itself in a vacuum subject only to solar storms)
just what the cold waters of the Bering sea
(and the mirror sea of air above it) are up to
all 19 hours of summer days and winter nights
through gales and calms and passing whales
through the sea ice as it scrapes
the yellow paint from its sides
17 years to meditate
in the circle of horizon
in the heartbeat of waves
in the perfect point
where all else
falls away
