unloading a spice ship on a summer day // a fantasy poem

Another assignment originally written for literature class. The prompt was to find words with distinctive sounds as well as a few words of my own invention, and use them to create a scene. 

note: this is partially inspired by the setting of "Aladdin."

a crowd's cacophonic murrumbling

blending with the grunting groans of the ship as it docks;

salt spray
flying into the air,
frizzling on the stone street,
and heat wisping and wafting upwards.

lachrymal spice scents drifting across the niche of a bay,
roving harlequin monkeys winkled out of tight-squeezing spaces
amid the timpani knocking of crates being unloaded