on a fishing boat
all day, you feel time
dissolve in water.
offbeat swells shrug
the craft. sun glare
stuns. you sense
the sea's in touch
with forever,
a distant cousin.
headed back to port,
you try to remind
yourself you're you.
gulls shriek, nobody
talks, land magnets
the boat close.
wobbly on a dock,
you again accept
your position: the
skipper of your life.
dissolve in water.
offbeat swells shrug
the craft. sun glare
stuns. you sense
the sea's in touch
with forever,
a distant cousin.
headed back to port,
you try to remind
yourself you're you.
gulls shriek, nobody
talks, land magnets
the boat close.
wobbly on a dock,
you again accept
your position: the
skipper of your life.
hans ostrom 2021
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