For Real Toads: choosing Hannah's photos

Today, at the online writers' group, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, our challenge is to write to the beautiful photographs of the lovely and talented Hannah Gosselin.

Several photos were offered for us, some exquisite, but I chose the photo below, which Hannah entitled Pier Post Persisting, because I always love a pier, especially the one at the beach in my home town, White Rock, BC.

Pier Post Persisting

Photo and title by Hannah Gosselin

Thousands of feet trod the planks of the pier

for many a summer, for many a year,

until the town languished, then shrivelled, then died,

and left the poor pier to the incoming tide.

The planks became rotten, then covered in moss,

then fell, and the posts left behind mourned their loss.

"Look here, don't you see? There was a pier here

where fishermen tied up their boats, got their gear

ready, then went out to fish on the river.

We posts thought the pier would be here forever."

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The boards rotted, and fell, and they left the posts

to time and the tide, in their rivermouth host.

So, if you go down there some summer day

you might see the pier posts persisting today.