A Sea of Tales

A sea of tales: calms and gales, sardines and whales – fishy with scales, children with pails; shell-homes of snails; pirates, and barrels of ales – a young boy's imagination... Incoming wave, flooding village moats – drenching all: Save the women!~ cats, dogs, pet rats; then the preachers and teachers – Save the Popsicle skiffs! The handkerchief sails on driftwood tall-ships.... Could it be Columbus started this way? Perhaps Captain Hook? Stevenson's popular book? Anderson, thinking that a little boy's finger could save a village, perhaps point to a better way – one tiny small hand with just as small feet. His royal-seal, a cigar-band – learning of powerful tides, beach...and of hourglass-sand –