September Moorings

Slips marked and mapped across the intercoastal waterways a scanning breached out of high low tidal waves, silent, still, obscure, and not well hidden liveaboards hold steady isolated sheltered misgivings; embedded and anchored in place buoys secure contested living space, Matanzas Pass, Sarasota fields, Titusville and Sunset Bay the Gulf Stream Key Largo flow a mainstay; honker down between the wind, the rain, and sun vessels sturdy and rickety, short and long - all come, house and home hum interludes for a sing-along, push aways and pull in tights safeaways and derelicts amidst stormy plights resident and transient, occupied and abandoned faceless vacancies, sequestered and random, marinas and harbors within hurricane holds in tandem, dockmasters and dock slips. environmental folds alluring beleaguered and bewildered landlocked sailors touring in their trawlers, boats, cruisers and yachts adoring September shelters in the Florida moorings.