Seascape Poem by Richard Provencher

is precious like silver
under a blanket
of stars

day's brightness
downsized to cloudy
and gray,
high above a coastal village.

Son's report card showers
earned praise,
husband's codfish-catch
something else.

Now she lays
in the silence,
her man snoring
after a meal of loving,
son in the next room
wrapped in childhood dreams

counts her blessings
she does, family
a castle of expectations.