Looking Ahead

Out at the end of Bearskin Neck, out past the Fudgery, past Helmut’s Strudel Shop,

past Bradley Wharf and Motif #1, past The Barn Gallery and The Country Store –

at the very end of the Neck where the only attractions are the harbor, the sea and the sky-

I saw a young woman and a young man sitting close together on the rocks.

They noticed only each other and that they could see beyond the harbor,

past the breakwater, past Rockport, past Gloucester, past Boston.

They could see themselves anywhere in the world under slips of silver clouds,

sitting close together by some safe harbor.

Marty Luster