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Dockside

May 22, 2023 | 0 comments

There is something soothing 
about the slap of the waves
against the hull, the warmth 
of a long-awaited spring sun, 
the sight of a lone seagull 
soaring overhead
 
and then a runabout 
flying a “F_ Biden” flag
chugs toward the channel
and I forget my resolve 
to leave all angst 
in the parking lot
 
until I remember 
how the women in the church 
took mother’s hand,
said they’d pray for her,
and how one, her dark eyes 
catching mine, whispered
“And you, too”
 
and how tears trickled
down my face that morning,
as they are now 
this first afternoon on the boat
watching the sunlight on the water 
sparkling 
as it does on the vase 
he gave me 
for no reason 
save one.

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