“A certain stage of its changing’

— Photo by Alex756

“The afternoon almost gone. The tide

at a certain stage of its changing.

The shore giving way to the tide,

the day giving way to week’s end.

Between us and the sea: an inlet

too small to wade, a clump of marshgrass….”

— From “Where Tide,’’ by Philip Booth (1925-2007), a Maine and New Hampshire-based poet and teacher