'Yearning for a new location'

Along Plymouth’s shoreline

Along Plymouth’s shoreline

“The night mist leaves us yearning for a new location   

to things impossibly stationary,

the way they’d once float houses

made from dismantled ships, brass and timber,   

from Plymouth, Massachusetts, across the sound   

to White Horse Beach. You were only a boy.’’

— From “Floating Houses,’’ by David Wojahn