the five boats look aflame, and
their huge sodium lamps, two fore two aft
cast long reflections in the bay
pillars of light supporting
a cantilevered darkness;
from the West emerge hills
which sink South below the water
whence arises orange sky
fading into yellow into green into
a blue, black-spotted wherever you don't look
and now the water's oily waves catch this blue
and the black sky runs up the hills
concealing each other
chased by the smoky orange sky
and watched by the five flaming sodiums
on the water.