At First Light

Sometimes when the first light

Of morning is softly kissing,

As if waking the waters of  

Discovery Passage,

And the grass is still damp

From its wild affair with night,

The early gulls air floating below

A lone eagle circling high in the sky,

The salty ocean like a lover’s fingers

Gently massaging the sand, the rocks,

All waiting for the sun to rise

And rub its eyes over Quadra Island,

Sometimes at first light a mystic shiver

Travels my spine as I sit on the shore

At the edge of Campbell River.

 

Stephen Nesbitt ©

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