a black and white kind creature             

from the ocean’s depths

whose brain is smarter than humans

and who wouldn’t hurt anyone.

 

Here you lie

baking in the sun

smelling

black flies perching

dead.

 

I bow down and weep

I imagine you just yesterday

diving below to the great abyss

of unfathomable darkness

that we as humans turn away from.

 

Brave warrior of the sea 

you turn night into day

you rise from that murky black floor

floating up and down, up and down

making happy noises    

as if celebrating that dark as a gift

 

I don’t know what happened to you…

caught in a fisherman’s net

eaten by a bigger whale

sick from digesting rotting algae from global warming

 

Oh muse of the ocean

magician of darkness

captain of light

thank you for showing us

                                                                              7/12/23 

                                                                              Belle Cote Beach

                                                                              Cape Breton, N.S.

 

 

I go to the Sea

it holds me in my hard places

and rocks me until I am soft and yielding

 

I go to the Sea

I feel my body armor loosening

and my masks floating away

 

I go to the Sea

It takes me by the hand and floats me out deeper

dwarfing my fears

and washing away my smallness

 

I go to the Sea

It shows me its’ depth

and I see myself

                                                                                7/22/23 

                                                                                Margaree Harbor                                                                                                                                          Cape Breton, N.S.

 

 

 

Diving under the waves we meet face to face.

We get very still and curious.

We look into each others’ eyes

and a bigger love washes away our fears.

 

A fisherman once told me,

“don’t look them into the eyes,”

 but I did…..

 

And I saw that I looked like you,

that the life in you was the same as the life in me,

and that we were never more than a breath away,

we were each other all along.

 

                                                                                     8/3/23

                                                                                     Whale Cove                                                                                                                                                   Cape Breton, N.S.

 

 

 

Outside the beaches of our noticing,

dolphins rise from the depths singing.

 

Oceanic operas song in a language of love.

And we,?  too busy to hear…..

 

                                                                                          6/16/23

                                                                                          Pleasant Bay

                                                                                          Cape Breton, N.S.

 

 

Crossing the Margaree Harbor Bridge

the wind picked up

my cap blew off

and each time I struggled to go forward

the wind pushed me back

 

Glancing up at a seagull in front of me,

I swear I saw a smile on its’ face 

as partnering with the wind

it glided effortlessly, 

suspended in mid-air,

 going nowhere.

                                                                                       7/6/24

                                                                                        Margaree Harbor

                                                                                        Cape Breton, N.S.