Rowing

*** Also published Thursday July 23 2009 on http:// www.7beats.com/herenow.html

Get into
my canoe.
Let’s paddle out into Kaneohe bay
to the Sandbar.
Let us make a plan
to stick together
through
rough
winds
pelting
rain and
strong
currents.
Our oars
marking time in sequence.
Focused and
fixed
on our goal
as one
and get there.