(collaboration with Lee House) , Alaska, September 2018

At the southernmost point of the Chilkat Peninsula

Between two tides

A balanced moment

Not for later

But for now

Stand

Look

Breath

Pick up

Put down

Pick up

Rocks chosen on flat merit and bumpy challenge

Portions of the sea, cast aside

Gentle weights, stacked precarious

Turned gently in our hands to wipe the grit

Moments of touch

Carefully passed

Small gestures in open palms

We built this cairn together

Twenty-one stones

A love poem for the ocean