The Unacknowledged
The Unacknowledged We fly over the same green seawater Shelley drowned in off the coast of Italy, A copy of Keats's Endymion In his coat pocket, water the color Of Dr. Frankenstein's monster's eyes. He said poets are the unacknowledged Legislators of the world. Good quote. On the beach they burned his body. His body Burned, but his heart refused to, the tissue Calcified by tuberculosis. Mary Shelley kept the heart the rest of her life. Now nameless migrants drown, unacknowledged By the legislators of the world. It is the same water, the same green eyes.