Puget Sound by Barbara Spring
Tender the late day
Water rippling in slowly
Freighters drift by
The beacon on a spit of sand
Pretty as a toy
Red and white
And immense gentle blue
Of water and sky.
Barbara Spring is a lake watcher; served on many committees for the improvement of the Great Lakes; was a correspondent for the Grand Rapids Press; taught in public schools and at Grand Valley State University: author of The Dynamic Great Lakes, The Wilderness Within, Sophia’s Lost and Found, and Between Sweetwater and Sand.