| Shearwater - Meridian | |
| In the burning days | |
| Of unnatural light | |
| I took a long drive | |
| Into the evening | |
| On the barracks road | |
| past the generals' eyes | |
| down to the seawall | |
| where the waves stand by | |
| The enormous lull | |
| then the roar in the sky | |
| and then the searchlights | |
| over the airfield | |
| And over the ocean | |
| winging low | |
| I saw the first wave | |
| and the flares that fall | |
| like fireflies | |
| on the islands | |
| In the boom and swell | |
| from the waves to the heights | |
| reverberations | |
| of our old lives | |
| Like a golden bell | |
| that would ring through the night | |
| and then the front moves | |
| and we raise our eyes | |
| in the silence of the island |