Alone On Vacation by Pasquale Trozzolo

5:20 early

Dark — crashing waves begin to

Fade as the tide turns and the skies

Light and a boat floats in the distance.

Why not me before they wake escape in a

Yellow kayak with an

Orange vest and no tie?

Is the water red a warning to stay out?

A lonely ship sneaks in

Early all aglow catering and

Dogs bark loud over the crashing tides

As if to say hear me.

One by one

Like morning clouds they appear

People

Pre Occupying.

Why does the man fish without a pole

Just a line like me?

Why do the pelicans fly so low as

Fish temptation grows?

The man with the line is

Pulling endlessly

Like mad —

And I don’t know why.

6:12 and my TV

Whispers

As do the

Owls.

A man with a paddleboard appears

To disappear — why do I worry?

Let him go.

I do – finally.

7:31 the last of late morning

Walkers are out.

The day

Breaks.

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Pasquale Trozzolo is an entrepreneur and founder of one of the leading advertising and public relations firms in the Midwest. In addition to building his business he also spent time as a racecar driver and grad school professor. Now with too much time on his hands, he continues to complicate his life by living out as many retirement clichés as possible. He’s up to the P’s. In 2020 his work was published in Sunspot Literary Journal, The Virgin Islands Source, The Pangolin Review, What Rough Beast, 34th Parallel, From Whispers to Roars, The Dewdrop, Wingless Dreamer, City Lifestyles, Passager Journal, Ariel’s Dream Journal, Last Leaves and Tiny Seed Journal. His debut chapbook Before the Distance is forthcoming by The Poetry Box Press in December of 2020.