NEIL'S HARBOUR, CAPE BRETON poem


from the ABC set POETRY - A Passage of Motion

Neil’s Harbour, Cape Breton

At moorings
in the evening
dark outlines shudder
gently against the shimmer
of sun-glazed water

dreams of tomorrow’s catch
hum soundly on their
dory-frames.

© 1989 Richard L. Provencher
All Rights Reserved

first published Summer 1989
Vol. 38, No. 1
Tower Poetry Society Press
Dundas, Ontario ISSN 0495-9701

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