Great question about cartography here from Tobias. If anyone knows the literal correct answer, please let us know in the comments. However, this is my take on it.
Perhaps they draw the maps
When it is low tide…
But then someone could come
Along and say
“I’ll build my houses here
Right by the water”
And soon,
All that he built
Would wash
Away.
And so perhaps
They draw the maps
At high tide…
But then someone
Might look at them,
Decide:
“I’ll put my anchor down
And leave my boat here”
And then be stranded
By the falling tide.
The places and the people
That exist here,
Between
The this
and that
The land
And sea.
Can never quite be fully
Mapped or captured:
The inexplicable
Are truly free.
Tom Juniper Poetry 