Coast Guard Crow

If you stand in front of the painting Looking Back
and look very far to the right
beyond Larsen’s
way past the edge of the panel
you can just see the end of the row of those old fishing shacks
out to the Coast Guard Building.

Now turn around
and trudge your way along the slippy sandy way
back to and across,the parking lot for the bike ferry
where there is a tiny footpath.

The trail takes you up and over a dune
and down to the water’s edge
where it looks a lot more like a working fisherman’s haven.

Lots of boats
in pieces
and piles
with a tide line of seaweed and shellfish debris
be careful where you step
but take a moment to stop and look up.

Again with the lesson
to look back
every color of that sunset
will be there to astonish
even if the wind
is chopping that water
and back along the basin
out behind the shacks
she’s blowing up wisps of sea angels.