‘The wake of the Sea-Ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun’
– from ‘After the Sea-Ship’, Walt Whitman,1900
God, I love Whitman ,he has a line for just about every life experience. Read him at my wedding and my father’s funeral because I needed the reassurance of his insight to sum up what I couldn’t quite get out of my own mouth…
I think ship wakes are beautiful -amazing symbols of where we have come from and where we are going, at the same time.
ebb then flood 