Sails billow
Sweltering day vanishes
The old wooden boat skims over the water
following a path of rippling moonlight
I trail my hand in the frothing wake
Water streams over the varnished hull
The shore’s an inky brushstroke
The world blurs
We are pirates
sailing across time
flying over the bay
Moonstruck
Elizabeth Fletcher
Elizabeth Fletcher’s poems appear in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Bay to Ocean Journal, Last Leaves, Ariel Chart, Spaceports & Spidersilk, Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Cape Cod Times, Star*Line, and Book of Matches. Nominations: Rhysling Award (2023), Pushcart prize (2021). Philadelphia Inquirer publications: essays on sea turtles and Snowy owls.