Sight

Photo: Diego Fernandes 2011

July 4th’s vigilant gaze above leftcoast cliffshores
Probe passions inside from landside an outside
Buddyless lone surfer surveys cold western swell
Where seafoam tidelines mark California edgerock

Green Pacific waters dissolve to grey Pacific mist
Fogs waft north to hide Marin and Point Reyes
Boredom of onshore hours in flat sessions
Send Buddyless and board wheeling homeward

Can the dragon guard of an approaching stormfront
Hear whispers of struggle between angry friends
C'est une question morale ancient exemplars adjure
Green eyes seek new horizons beyond the Farallones

Voyage

Photo: Diego Fernandes 2009

The future, like the silver sea,
Is riding invisible somewhere outside.
The eye of my heart peers forward.

That unknown and limitless land
Collides against a raven shore of history.
Where my memory lies enchained.

The ship to far shores rests,
It’s anchor weighed in this moment.
A gangway bridges murky experience.

Its captain stands ready for a signal,
Longshoremen have cast off most lines.
Boatswains caper about the deck.

Yet the cargo is not fully stowed,
Full provisioning incomplete.
I await a manifest item.