At Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia

Dockside’s smell is from
herring-bait
on lobster boats
disgorging slatted traps
where movements scuttle
in little spaces

shoreline harbour completing
a picture of bedlam
in commercial activity.

Above sheer rock of wall a frisky
wind tattooes mightily
and cabin shivers on ocean’s lip.

Inside a tired fisherman is captured
by dreams of nets to repair
buoys to paint and a backyard
in disarray with lobster

pots desperate for tarring.

© Richard L. Provencher
Website: www.wsprog.com/rp/