homeward

“i am finished with knowing,”
he says,
and sets sail for home.

cities give way to indecipherable sea.
heading south,
he comes to a country of unfenced
pastures.

then night comes.
the nile flows backwards and
all the floatsam slips back upstream.

lamps flicker in windows
along shore-

vela,
carina,
puppis,

and pyxis.