STORM (on Navy Ammo Ship)

Wrangell
roll over
and go to sleep

the ocean’s
green and
dark blue deep

your towering
sky
surrounds your zoo

while lumbering
slumbering
plummeting screw

Wrangell
roll over
and go to sleep

that ordered
promise
you cannot keep

it’s brought
us over
on down the brink

of heeling
over and
into the drink

‘tis too much
strain for
a floating dorm

the mighty
swells of
the ocean’s storm

now into
the water
the animals leap

Wrangell has
rolled over
and gone to sleep