a vessel / a cup or something / is for carrying things / liquids mostly / something nourishing / if you scooped out / the sea it would / leave a pretty big hole / bowl-shaped / jagged at the edges / but deep enough / to contain some / of man's folly / and hate but who would / carry it away?
The text is from Peter Hooper's poem 'Prayer for the second coming', from Journey towards an elegy and other poems (Nag's Head Press, Christchurch, 1969).