Long boats flit across the water
Bringing their catch in to the shore.
Waves slash, crash, roll and billow
As it is, as it always was before.
Long boats fishing
In the still, calm of the day.
Harvesting the hard fought catch,
Summer solace in this way.

07/10/1975

Author's Note: ... long ago in Biloxi, Mississippi.....

Posted on 09/01/2009
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