Tag: ocean

• Daily Prompt: Encrusted – The Northwest Passage

  

  The wind howls, but the sails are still Stiffened in the inescapable chill Rigging once full of avian cries Now just cloth encrusted with ice Creaking wood moans low under the wind Trapped and left with nothing to defend In the bowels, straps and bars and manacles On the prow, a sculpture encrusted with barnacles…

  Holly (she/her)

  February 21, 2018

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