Monday, January 24, 2022

Again To The Sea Comments

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I went down to watch the ocean this morning - well, Long Island Sound anyway. My last chance for a while, classes start tomorrow. I wonder sometimes how I can be refreshed by that gray, drizzly, melancholy harbor - locked in winter's intemperate grip - but I am.

The salty air seems thicker and richer, the sky bigger and wilder. There's the relaxing sound mix of wave and gull. The ugly brown pelicans bickering like old, married couples, as a lone fisherman, in his yellow macintosh slicker, sorts his boat lines under the watchful, hopeful, hungry eyes of floating black-backed gulls.
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Kim Barney 24 January 2022

I love this poem, Anais. It's so relaxing. And hey, not all old married couples argue! My wife and I get along fine... most of the time. We've been married 55 years.

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anais vionet 25 January 2022

55 years! woowzer! Congratulations! I guess I meant "bicker".. hhmm.. maybe I should change that. Thanks!

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