The Beach at Lambert’s Cove
By Leroy Hazelton
I believed
In all stars spinning
From the Mouth
And that sea clams,
Loons and strangers wing to paradise,
While your hand,
Intruding on a pope’s disguise,
Traced to a deeper skull
A sea gull’s rowdy circle
In my hair.
Leroy Hazelton lives in Vineyard Haven, and volunteers at Chicken Alley.
Poets with a connection to Martha’s Vineyard are encouraged to submit poems to curator Laura Roosevelt at ldroosevelt@gmail.com.
