Souwasset Harbor

Souwasset* Harbor
(*the Setalcott Nation name for the region before “Port Jefferson”)
for Barbara Southard

The sounds the water makes
reaching the sand, myriad little rocks
with various shapes, sizes, curvatures —
all reminders of devotion

geese glide in to pause
and preen, spritzing water on themselves,
flapping wings to dry,
water sparkling sharply with
wavy reflections of sunlight
like large chunks of shattered glass in motion
but harmless

two toddlers playing in the sand
as focused as if landing
a
jet
airliner

before getting back to the concrete streets,
sighting a sparrow darting
through the August grasses

so much interplay and relating,
this is the stuff that Summer days
are made of.

Some quiet Winter afternoon
when your garden is poised
with seeming stillness,
look
for the interplay,
then look again.

~Mankh (Walter E. Harris III
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