Weather

When friends put sail to their catamaran
I’m mildly troubled but not worried.
If anyone knows how 

they do, still, chancing it 

on water, the heave & hum,

liable to storms

though short-hauling

they can know the weather.

Months now, spring

& all summer, they’ve made port

in Portland,

their Argentine house finished but untried.

Already it’s August, the month 

the great wind starts.

— 14 August 2013