Every summer I hop a ferry to Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor to walk, write, and look out to the sea. So with summer fast approaching I decided to use poet Denise Sklar’s meditation on the said isle in the LYRICAL.

Poet Denise Sklar.

Spectacle Island

World alone wandering

child on shore stands,

thin body outline

of grace begins

beach dance-

ankles knees white shorts

tee shirt orange,

arms and legs hang long,

her hand cupping water

with weighty stagger,

she pulls out rock

and shell to dry

in the sun.

She is at home

in the world,

the womb

wading, tide in

and out,

the pull, play

the skip, she laces

dips while feet  anchor

planted, under water

salty wet

sand moving fast.

— Denise Sklar

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