Companion wind no longer blows.
Afloat in your dead air
upon the sea.
I hear the syncopated
slap of waves,
My small boat rocking, rocking,
Room for one.
Brief time to conjure
In the short, slipping silence
Of regret.

—C.G. Baker, 2025

Year: 2009
Location: Leelanau Peninsula, Michigan
Collector’s Edition of 10
Dimensions: 13" x 19.5"