It either moves toward us
Anticipating its own arrival
A post with a picture
The one we invested in
It struck me today
How I hadn’t said
Your name
My children,
It would be easy
To say I see
I could see the light in your eyes
Fade
It is better to be a contagion
Life is a mosaic, a mirror
Though many hucksters
And charlatans will
When it rains in February
We think of the snow we missed
In 1821, Owen Coffin was a teenaged sailor aboard the Nantucket whaler, Essex. When a whale rammed and breached the hull of the ship in mid-ocean…