boat

I pulled the line
and
ducked the boom
and pulled the rudder out
my craft
once near
the shallow water and the dock

I sculled
and also let the sail full
pull us across
the lake where I captained
so to say
the first
time with a passenger trusting
me
and thankfully we both faced
an adolescent nature-breath of wind and
more
and made it back

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photo by Sonja Langford on Unsplash