“Child at Sea” by Saul Bennett

Saul Bennett

CHILD AT SEA

We remain together,
Though on a vessel now,
In a shallow waterway, a tributary,

Berthed eternally at mocha dusk. It warms so

Knowing
She’s a deck below,
Biding, grooming, imagined
Unafraid.

When she ventures up
And starboard toward us,
We shall assure the world, corresponding
Flags aloft, our child has not died.

from Rattle #18, Winter 2002

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Saul Bennett: “I had never written a poem. Then, following the sudden death of my oldest child, 24, from a brain aneurysm, poetry found me in my grief.”

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