Ocean Motion

Jnana grew up far from the seashore or even mountains. He didn’t encounter the ocean until he reached adolescence and visited Florida on a camping trip with some of his dad’s old Army Air Force buddies. Jnana next saw the sea his spring break of his senior year of college, with his then-girlfriend and her parents. After that, the pace picked up, especially once he moved to northern New England, now half of his life ago. As these poems demonstrate, the more he gets to know the North Atlantic...