The Lighthouse

Question 1

the great fish-eye

Answer 1

revolves in a socket that floats on mercury

Question 2

Waters slide

Answer 2

and close over the drowned// their bones add salt to salt

Question 3

Ninety years

Answer 3

the beam has loomed// the century’s night

Question 4

In early times

Answer 4

it took a man’s sleeve bursting to flame one placid afternoon

Question 5

if revolution ceased

Answer 5

at sunrise// daylight could turn its eye in on itself and burn the heart like a collapsing star

Question 6

as a child

Answer 6

learns fire by capturing the sun in a magnifying glass to make Excalibur.