A Weekend Escape
This Saturday afternoon
I arrive at
highest tide.
An even roll,
an even roar
washes upon the
glittering strand
& foams around stilts
of houses abandoned
for the season …
Up on those porches
families unpack
their picnics.
In the foaming surf,
gulls gather around
fishermen picking
yet-live fish
from their nets.
In that foaming tide,
red crabs scurry
to holes dug into
the cool depths
of the sand.
& in that
yet-rising tide,
women dance.
© 2024 Lorraine Caputo
Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 400 journals on six continents; and 23 collections of poetry – including In the Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press, 2023) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011), and nominated for the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her travels at: www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer or https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com.
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