Cape Spear Poem by Richard Provencher

Cape Spear



empty the ocean 'cause
sandbars are coming,
as echoes

slimy rocks expose
their slippery touch, as
lonely friends

furnace-stocked sun

uncovers razor fish
clams and crabs,
drying out forever

seagull territory, their
white-splotched shore
and erk…erk cries

wind and soaring

Friday, September 5, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: nature
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The first time I saw the tides from the Atlantic Ocean was near the birth area of my wife, Esther, at Cape Spear, Nova Scotia, close to Port Elgin. Her dad farmed and fished lobster in her early days and I wrote this poem for those dunes of time.
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