Cap Lumiere Fishermen

A lobster fleet
licks its way across
Northumberland Strait

like smudges
under an Atlantic sky

crew bragging too soon,
made-in-China
mackinaws moist
in morning dew,
stench of herring bait
a sure lure:

slatted traps parading
as footprints on ocean’s
bottom, a home
for canners & markets

protruding eyes, claws
groping.

© Richard L. Provencher