…”Waves break on outcrop rock: granite,
fire-formed and hard, headland granite –
no coddled cape, no sandbar,
and nothing soft in her city, no knickknack,
Gloucester-by-God, attitude granite.
The beaches are broken by wetland, woods of oak
and pine, grace in paintscape chasms, coves,
the harbor of ships, sailboats, a fishing fleet”… Continue reading
Good Harbor, Home
(Gloucester inaugural poem, January 1, 2002)
JOHN J. RONAN, Poet Laureate of Gloucester, MA
Good Morning Gloucester 