The sail of the Kon-Tiki raft, Kon-Tiki Museet, Bygdøy, 6/30/04, by P.J. Capelotti
P.J. Capelotti
The Heart of the Sea
Sjøens hjerte
Is it true,
as Nemo declared,
and Cousteau revealed,
and Heyerdahl drifted,Only six fathoms below.
the surface of the sea,
the power of man ceases,
his influence fades,
his authority disappears…It is true,
to survive,
we must live
in the heart of the sea.
Bio:
P.J. Capelotti, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and American Studies at Penn State University Abington College in Abington, PA, is author or editor of more than a dozen non-fiction histories, including Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki (2001) and By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration (1999). His poetry has appeared in the online journal Subjective Substance, and he has completed a collection of that explores evolutionary and spiritual connections between the oceans of Earth and space.
