long & low Denise Hill Still Life Author and Saginaw Bay Writing Project Participant Denise Hill is an educator and an editor of NewPages.com. She collects Petoskey stones, stray dogs, and plastic bags, and tries never to miss a week without buying a Michigan Lotto ticket. She was born and raised in Michigan and loves the mitten state with its great lakes and craft beer.
the lake freighter’s horn sounds as it courses downriver cool damp predawn air carries its bellowing call across town while we sleep hauling in cargo sand & stone gravel & coal one long blast, one short the bulker’s horn sounds again echoing through our dreams vacant hulls waiting to be filled rock floating on water
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