Having passed Searsport and now at anchor in Stockton Springs
Captain Becky’s reading in the galley
from Lincoln Ross Colcord’s Sailing Days on the Penobscot
of the treacherous trip from here,
where the crooked, tricky Penobscot River is said to begin
and the 24 miles to Bangor and Brewer at the first falls
and all the lumber collected from upstream
even the 18 miles from Bucksport was a terror
in the days of sails
tidewalkers
broken logs along the shoreline
and river
can sink a ship
60 boats a day at Bangor and Brewer
schooners lashed three abreast
for the Bangor stretch
pulled by a steamboat
Make way!
Jnana's Red Barn 