The Perfect Tide

This is what you do.
Wait.
Work while you wait.
Tune the engine.
Scrape the barnacles.
Mend the nets.
Organize.
Paint.
Replace the ropes that have frayed.
Stay busy.
Preparing
for the perfect tide.

About this poem

About fishing boats. About almost anything in life that we have to wait for. Love. Faith. Success. We wait. We prepare. So when the moment comes…. we are ready.

The picture was taken in Provincetown, Mass.

Tom