bouys bob

A twelve tone renku-junicho by Shokan Tadashi Kondo (tk) and Raffael De Gruttola (rdg).

red white buoys bob currents change	rg
seagulls separated by a thousand waves	tk
unseen stars radiate on the ocean floor— Deer Island	rg
spawning of eggs a feast on the beach	tk
jet's shadow the right whale beside herself	rg
wind surfer falls with a splash	tk
out of the shell her Venus mound still dripping	tk
moon for the misbegotten sunken schooner	rg
ghost of the tall sail haunts the captain with one eye	tk
sunbathers in bikinis their children build sandcastles	rg
footprints erased one by one by the high tide	tk
seaweed washed ashore	rg

"bouys bob" was written in November of 1999 at the Kennedy Library, which faces Massachusetts Bay.

The poem was set to music and perfomed as a trio by Peter Zay, cello; Anastasia De Gruttola, violin; with Raffael de Gruttola reading the text.

Moon for the Misbegotten is the title of a play by Eugene O'Neill. sunken schooner is a book of haiku by Canadian poet, Margaret Saunders.