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Welcome Lull

When doldrums hit, a sailboat can
be trapped for days, no whiff of air to
move the mainsail, not a happy thing
at all, so frowned upon we use the word 
for deep depression, being stagnant,
inactivity that bogs a person down. 
But I imagine contemplating miles and
miles of ocean under an enormous sky
with something pleasant on the radio
and maybe something pleasant bubbling
on the stove, and someone pleasant down
below reciting poetry or arguing the finer
points of seafood preparation, maybe 
sunning silently there on the deck beside 
me, and it sounds quite grand, a welcome
lull to all the storms and speed one faces
out at sea (and on the land).



(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014