A ship's cabin can reproduce the atmosphere of a (very small) dockside inn:
brandy in coffee;
warmth;
swaying deck;
thick, acrid, blue tobacco smoke;
two glowing lamps;
sounds of wind, waves and creaking hawsers;
leather bench curling around a table;
secured filing cabinet and typewriter;
bed with beaverskin blanket;
bureau;
door to bathroom;
bookshelves with durable, bound volumes from centuries before the Judgment;
Egyptian statuette of a cat-headed woman;
gray dawn light through portholes;
a discrete conversation. (Plik says poets know what to omit.)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
A cabin both comfortable and practical. And I would have liked to have examined those books.
Some might even have been in our now extinct form of English. What a way to talk! (Smiles)
Ad astra! Sean
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