To the Islands

The waves are as hard and grey and wild as the granite hugging King George Sound.  Not a good day for boating, but you insisted.
 
Michaelmas and Breaksea Islands loom ahead, the swell groaning beneath us like a warning.  
 
We don't turn back.
 
Behind us lies the jetty we jumped off, the pontoon we swam to, the cove where I couldn't say I love you.
 
Have we sailed far enough? I wish I knew. I wish a lot of things.
 
I cut the engine, reach for you. My words catch on the wind with the ash I throw like confetti.

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