LORRAINE CAPUTO

SEA NOCTURNE

Waves wash evenly
to this shore
moonlight slithers
with the ebb
with the flow
up the glittering
cinder-black sands

… a soft song
a lullaby
for my memory-
weary mind …

Bare breeze
through the palms
sways my hammock,
rocking me
in the salt-
scented night

Phosphorescence streaks
the dark water
the spume
of breaking surf
gleams under
that pregnant moon
nestled within

the Vía Lactea &
a million
points of light
… & there, Venus …
… over there, Jupiter …
… & that red speck, Mars …

I float
on this breeze
on that wave-song
the surf still rolling
… the heavens still shining …

Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo’s poetry appears internatonally in over 500 journals and 24 collections of poetry – including In the Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press, 2023) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. She is a multiple Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize nominee. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her adventures at http://www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer or https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com.