East Ironbound

I.

It is not unreachable.

Wherever you think you are starting from
however far you think you have to go

whether you trust in your craft and your instruments

or would like to set out in a little round boat
to depend on the will of the wind or the gods
or simply because you were there at the auction
and had change in your pocket, and thought
"How curious, to have died in a curragh"

From Four Variations, by Jim Lindsey, Saltwater Rose Press, 2003

10 January 2025
Texas Jim
East Ironbound Island as seen from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia
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