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 loose control weeping…

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, 

your 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.

e 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 glance away,

we were each other all along…

 

                                                                                     8/3/23

                                                                                     Whale Cove                                                                                                                                                   Cape Breton, N.S.

 

 

 

Last night the stars hung so low.

And beneath that holy light,

primordial goodness rose

and mingled with that stary sea,

dissolving me,

dissolving me.

                                                                                   2/1/23

                                                                                   Goshen, Ct.

 

 

 

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 it had a smile on its face,

as partnerning with the wind,

it glided effortlessly in mid-air

enjoying going nowhere.

                                                                                       7/6/24

                                                                                        Margaree Harbor

                                                                                        Cape Breton, N.S.