Friday, September 20, 2013

In Deeper Than Our Knees

Parson's Beach, Maine
"In deeper than your knees, and you're part of the food chain." —Ocearch

No danger here.

This Maine water far too cold

For sharks.

No men in gray suits here

Mistaking Habs for seals,

Slashed only by the shadows of the gulls

And by the blades of sun

Flashing in the wavecrests.

No predation here. No sharks. Except

The silent deadly missiles of our hearts.



—Great white sharks are sometimes called "men in gray suits."