The significance of age 60 / Is to be young again / Without the weight of youth / So it is with Barack Obama.

Known simply as Esther / A runaway slave in 1743 / Sought to be free / By riding the “freedom train” / Where fantasy meets reality / Of a Harriet Tubman dream.

The Tiasquam snakes across the flats / like a student’s handwriting, / curving and back tracking, in no great hurry.

She would have remembered today’s blue sky / from summers at the Vineyard Sailing Camp / where she learned about tacking and heeling / and coming about on the calm or choppy / waters of the Lagoon.

Juneteenth and Father’s Day
Third week of June
A double celebration
Of fathers we know

The Black Skimmer working its way / close to shore — too close / for the Red Knots that arrived / last night from Argentina.