On the Shoreline

I have come to love the fisherman's upturned boat,
sea-weed darkened. I walk on the shingle.
A tree without branches grows on the shoreline--
further inland the dog-rose.

"Acadia National Park-6250139" by landscapes through the lens is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

 

I've forgotten a truth I once knew--

at a harp without strings the harpist flounders.

The music is there in the ache of my body,

in words beyond this night.

 

"Sunset from Cadillac Mountain (Bar Harbor, Maine)" by @CarShowShooter is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

~ Wendy French, in Seductive Harmonies: the Poetry of Music, ed Deborah Gaye (Avalanche Books, 2012)