It looks like just

a ruined boat,

but what if we

could make it float?

We’d sail downriver

and out to sea,

with a yo-ho-ho,

my friends and me.

I’d be captain,

they’d be crew,

so they’d do what

I told them to.

We’d sail to China, 

and then Peru,

on our own boat

on the ocean blue.

Old ship in Marlborough Sound, New Zealand. Photo by Ginette Pestana