Oily Weather

by Ernest Hemingway

Oily Weather was published in Hemingway's collection, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), retrieved from Wikisource.

An illustration for the story Oily Weather by the author Ernest Hemingway — Bonaventura Peeters, Sunlight on a Story Sea, 1640s

The sea desires deep hulls—
It swells and rolls.
The screw churns a throb—
Driving, throbbing, progressing.
The sea rolls with love
Surging, caressing,
Undulating its great loving belly.
The sea is big and old—
Throbbing ships scorn it.

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