-beauties of this life-

Arc in the blue weaves

green translucent 

light in the lift of its wave.

This light drifts clearly

over the tiller and into the hand at the wind-

kissed

weather helm.

In the distance,

the sterns of the fishers 

lean in their slips at the docks 

on the point of the coast.

Here, the study in rain-

fall—— flesh of the water,

drives its drenched resolution 

to challenge the depth of its salted

conclusion.

Here, the depth of silence

is moved through the stillness,

  

and into the sweeping  

perfume which covers the distance—

the distance engaging the salt of our blood

in its dance with the water.

                                 aboard the sloop "Cormorant"

                                 Westport Point, Massachusetts.

                                 for George Hughes