Passages
Wrecks
written by: Gerry Stefanson
@gerry_stefanson
Though none are designed,
in plan or construction,
With a tragic demise in their future,
Ships are partial to dramatic destruction.
So many, slide under the storm,
Land on a reef, barrel roll below.
As we do in life, in general
we don’t paint a picture of lovers
crashing on to or in to
actual reefs, rocks, docks.
Then spreading the debris of disaster all over their
friends, families, work mates and any total stranger
with earshot in some nefarious rum shack.
But we do, or they do.
Never a good life preserver at hand
when you’re going down like the Suzanne E.
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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