excersize #3

[Lylie]

Your list for this excersize is:

screw
boat
red
ice
volume

Lets see what you can come up with.

[curulambe]

The ice had come and gone, leaving behind
a floating city, stricken in the night,
the pride of the sky's glory. Now she stood
death-still. Her mighty screws had turned their last,
her tall stacks ceased to breathe. A man in black
took my small hand. My father reached to me,
but white gloves pushed him back. No men allowed
to live, to seek their lives aboard the boats.
He said no word, but gave me one last look;
he said more then than volumes could have done.
I think I slept. Carpathia was there
when I awoke, her taut lines drenched in blood,
red-painted by the dawn. We rose and swayed
up to the deck, sodden and shivering.
There was enough salt water all around,
so no-one wept. The sea needs not man's tears.