Forgotten Ground Regained
Breakwater
Feel the wind slap on water;watch small ripples, unruffled, risinguntil whitecaps race
and the helm heels over:past the last buoy the bow slaps against breakers,harrowed to safe berth.
Copyright © Paul D Deane, 2023
First published in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 1, Winter, 2024