OUT DEEP

We are a boat without love. Love

Works a way through the current,

Headed for us, waving. It is

Unclear to whom she speaks;

It is even possible

Something behind us

Moves her. We came

All this way for the unbroken

Water and such light I can no longer see

Where we are. You must

Guide me: nothing more can be done

If we are to get to shore. In return

I will keep your story,

The one you will tell the others

When we get home.

-Sophie Cabot Black