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Imagining a Sail
by Paulette Demers Turco
Inspired by Catamaran on Cedar Lake, by Sara Wadington
Catamarans seem flimsy on the sand,
their halyards clinking in the mildest breeze.
Beside the rippling edge of Cedar Lake,
still covered in a mist of bluish gray,
sits ours. It’s soon to shape one summer day
beyond imagining. We won’t mistake
our craft’s bare look for her abilities.
She’s yet to sport her mainsail, jib–command
and coast across the cyan span. No doubt,
she’ll jibe and tack, her sheets taut, filled with wind,
her lines held deftly by the crew. We might
well feel as if this sailor’s taken flight
beside a herring gull’s spread wing, both twinned
aloft until the captain’s “Come about.”
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