The Wrinkled Sea

from Northern Sketches by Gary Bunting

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The Wrinkled Sea

We walked by the wrinkled sea
Huddled up against the vicious wind
Whipping a storm from the east
Through ginnels and nooks and cobbled streets
Up the hundred and ninety nine steps
I count every single one
The sun behind us, casting those long shadows
Leaving the slumbering streets below the Plimsoll line of dusk
The boats creaking and bobbing
Swaying and moaning in the harbor
And we survey the scene of gravestones
A hundred, two hundred years old
Here when I was born and
Here when I die
I expect
Frayed and weather worn
Beaten by the wind
Baked by the sun
Frozen in the snow
Dented by the rain
The poems indecipherable
The tributes undetectable
The dates timeless
The relatives loved and lost
The elegies eroded
The Bible quotes salt licked
And I wonder if anybody remembers them
These little pieces of history
These moments

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from Northern Sketches, released October 22, 2021

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