two days of hard wind, hard blue skies
everything swirling, swirling
tree blown down, power out for 6 hours
two kayakers
headed for patos from lummi
drown, boats in pieces
probably never made it past
the wild standing chop off village point
then four days of large calm
bright skies bright stars
like taking a photo of stillness
and living within it, without breathing
*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.
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photo by Todd Elsworth
