4th place, Poetry in the Randall Albers Young Writers Award: “Nantucket” by Gabe Cadichon
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Nantucket
Smothered in January, all of the boats are leaving;
by and large, they have better places to be.
The whalers and fishermen are deserting the harbor,
leaving their rods and harpoons up on the wharf
as they voyage through the cold saltwater smog.
The boathouses are empty, reeking with silence,
under the weight of twenty years of snow—
twenty…