watercolor clouds
dappled gray,
warm cream, pastel blue
briefly cloak in
sunrise, sunset silk
a once sea going vessel.
vanishing now, wrecked,
mired, she sails to nowhere,
tide to tide, day to day
so drably dressed
in river mud
This sailing vessel is long wrecked and a fixture in the Machiasport, Maine river mudflats.
I retired from public school teaching after happily spending twenty eight years playing in Kindergarten. Now I fill my days watching cat antics, taking endless...
