Japanese Minister of Environment, Masaharu Nakagawa, announced on August 29th that the ministry is launching a campaign to promote the registration of privately - held ivory tusks.
«A Burnt Ship» catalogs the spilled belongings from a ship's hold («sunken masks, / god's horn, perfume, ivorytusks, / market dust»), before erupting in the expected, yet still unsettling conclusion that «all were lost, all were destroyed.»