Poetry

Oily Weather by Ernest Hemingway


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


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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