By Margaret Emerson
a twenty-five blow
gusting to forty
cancels five ferries
terminal flags snap
against murky
winter sky
still we drive to dockside
park in row two
watch the great iron carrier
force through the channel
then open mouth wide
to roll out her holdings
never question
the madness
of entering her bowels
to bob on the ocean
between the cape
and the island
a tribute to trust
to hope in the storm
Since retiring as a professor of Nursing at Northeastern University, Margaret lives in Chilmark where she pursues her passion for painting and poetry.
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