Passages
Any Port in a Storm
written by: Gerry Stefanson
@gerry_stefanson
Deck shutters under foot
Lines cast free from dock.
Rigging drawn and bent
Beams and mast strain.
High tides, hope for fair particular Harbours
call out in voices, language for all on board.
The bustle of everything climaxes into the calm
of away under sail, creaks of continuum.
We ‘the bold’ have picked our harbours
full knowing the harbour may pick us.
Weather, fortune and the sea gods
task all mariners.
When the unimaginable sets in,
when all is up for loss.
The optics for safe harbour scale down
subject to the level of fear on board.
Any port is now the destination/terminal.
Wither fair, folly, or only minor destruction.
NOTE:
Passages series photography by Kumiko Hawkes – Shizen Photography
MAY 2022 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH at Spillwords Press
Born and raised on the prairies of Manitoba Canada, along the Red River and just south of Lake Winnipeg. Then Alberta and ten years in the Rockies, just above Montana. The last decade in the Canadian Gulf Islands. People, ideas and stories set the stage of my poetry and writing. Music and art fill my days and verse fills my head. I feel the fortunate one and share this world with my life partner.
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