Nor'easter

Avon Pier, Outer Banks, NC

The surf in me has risen in the night

thrashing now collapsing on itself

i know it well     this sea      and i will stay

leaning in the gale and stung by spray

and soon the wind will shift

the waves will organize themselves

and rolling through the gleaming deep

they'll come to find me here at peace

on this perfect storm-swept beach.

— photo by Mark Lemmon