The Shine Journal

DEAD RECKONING

 

by

 

Elizabeth Hardman

(Creator of story and photograph)

 

 

 

 

A storm is gathering.

I fix position without reference

to the world beyond my window,

where the Magnolia shed her

waxy petals onto sodden earth;

in the month of your birth.

 

Hatches battened against

gasping wind; scudding laden clouds

across blackened sky - on a shout

of thunder. And I’m transfixed by

the radiance of your  presence;

in the year since your death.

 

 

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My Bio: My name is Liz and I am a Freelance Tutor and Mentor with a distance learning college in Cambridge, England; tutoring History, English and Creative Writing. I enjoy spending my leisure time writing, reading and I sail. I have recently gained my Day Skipper/Watch Leader certification for sailing.

My Motivation: My best friend was killed in November 2007 in a flying accident and at the same time I was taking my exams to become a sailing skipper, which include dead reckoning.  The photograph was taken when sailing out of St Katharine's Dock, London in 2007.