Sea Poems

“My heart is open again and sea flows in”: Cale Young Rice begins with the tide entering not a harbor, but a human mind. On Maine’s rocks, the shore itself calls the sea its bride—and waits for its answer.

In these early-twentieth-century poems, the coast is a place of wild weather, restless longing and questions too vast for one small light to answer. Rice lets the sea speak in many voices: a lover drawn back by the tide, a force raging against the shore, a gray dusk where a drowned hand rings the buoy bell. Against its shifting moods, his speakers search for hope, beauty and a meaning that can outlast change. When the sea’s darkness meets the human will to keep searching, what can still shine?

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