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Sailing On the Edge of Time, I Hear a Siren's Call

Sailing On the Edge of Time, I Hear a Siren's Call

Tim Heerdink
4.8/5 ( ratings)
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A lone sailor hears a siren's call while adrift at sea in this long poem told in journal entries as waves of madness grow with the passing days.

"A wind-etched, sea scarred feel of oft-repeated ballads reaches out of “Siren’s Call.” Yet poet Tim Heerdink’s chiseled voice is equally modern, deeply landing on that isolated dread so many share in the year of Covid-19. Heerdink pens breathtaking lines that land hard and true, for we have all spent a season or more adrift of late:

I can’t remember the face

of the girl I left at home.

It’s been far too long

& this journey has failed

with the goal of bringing

salvation.

What lasts in “Siren’s Call” is a feeling of survival against the odds. We cough, we gasp, but then, in song, we experience some transcendence that happens only after throwing away our ancient compass. “I toss it overboard,” the poet writes. “What use remains when I have this magnificent melody?”

With cinematic shadows and raw glimpses of light—which are ultimately a call to trust—Heerdink proves himself in “Siren’s Call” to be a master at conveying the painful, yet inevitably hopeful, beauty that comes with being a sensing, feeling creature in the midst of an ocean of cold uncertainty."

- Amy Alexander, author of NEVERLAND IS ALWAYS AN ISLAND
Language
English
Pages
20
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Roaring Junior Press
Release
March 23, 2021

Sailing On the Edge of Time, I Hear a Siren's Call

Tim Heerdink
4.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
A lone sailor hears a siren's call while adrift at sea in this long poem told in journal entries as waves of madness grow with the passing days.

"A wind-etched, sea scarred feel of oft-repeated ballads reaches out of “Siren’s Call.” Yet poet Tim Heerdink’s chiseled voice is equally modern, deeply landing on that isolated dread so many share in the year of Covid-19. Heerdink pens breathtaking lines that land hard and true, for we have all spent a season or more adrift of late:

I can’t remember the face

of the girl I left at home.

It’s been far too long

& this journey has failed

with the goal of bringing

salvation.

What lasts in “Siren’s Call” is a feeling of survival against the odds. We cough, we gasp, but then, in song, we experience some transcendence that happens only after throwing away our ancient compass. “I toss it overboard,” the poet writes. “What use remains when I have this magnificent melody?”

With cinematic shadows and raw glimpses of light—which are ultimately a call to trust—Heerdink proves himself in “Siren’s Call” to be a master at conveying the painful, yet inevitably hopeful, beauty that comes with being a sensing, feeling creature in the midst of an ocean of cold uncertainty."

- Amy Alexander, author of NEVERLAND IS ALWAYS AN ISLAND
Language
English
Pages
20
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Roaring Junior Press
Release
March 23, 2021

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