A-NOTHER WINDWARD
Along the sun-lined quay,
a grey-green and windy day :
the coffee is gusty, and the breeze bites .

A sleek, black hull, veers
towards the City's Trans-Tower :
two "V-shapes" reversed .

White-mast fixed ! on the City's bulk .
Sails now spread, in open-formation .
Across-the-water, a diminishing ...v...
is windwardly thrust, fast-forward in motion.

The skyline waves from hills
near the ocean : the Bay Bridge stencilling
an outline, of this notion.

paul leClerc
26 Aprl '99

SEASONING THE VALLEJO
Seagoat island
a white Volvo swerving
mud-tainted marsh-grass and a
square-shaped R.V. .

And a hundred-and-twenty year old Ferry :
its V-shaped iron hull, mud-set,
arched-gangplank off a guillotine-trussed dock ;
with wood-slat siding, skylit, and a Gothic door,
smokestack looking over two white-painted pilot-houses :
a Bohemian scene of thick-timbered cheer !

All-round are white sailboats at-rest,
muddied Arks, houseboats at-play,
black cormorants circling in the water by day :
a most spirited blend of salt-crust, and Bay !

paul leClerc