IMPROVISATION#257
MOVING ON THE ROCKS

Moving on the rocks
kelp and seaweed
at the mouth of the harbor
in Plymouth on purpose
eyeing a humpback whale
from a helicopter
after rescuing
a baby porpoise
off the Coast at Gloucester
who had been torn away
from his mother
by these mad winds
feeling good until a shark
passes within the dark waters
trying to absorb my energy
but will put off this creature
inside of my memory
to have inside me
until the vibration
again follows my shadow
in a sunrise latitude
of my awakened poetry
will move me out of sight
to surface on the face
of the waves.