Dunedin Pass

Dunedin Pass

The resilient tides

and singular hurricanes

incrementally alter

the face of my coastline,

until I do not recognize

the channels and currents

that I followed and fought

as a juvenile vessel,

free of barnacles, 

and inching away from port.

Amid the resonance 

of lunar crescents

and dredged sand, 

can there be faith

in the pass between islands

to the open ocean,

and that it will still be open,

when our moorings 

finally fray

and wear away?

-Robert L. Jackson III

Dunedin Pass in 1979.

Near to where I grew up there was a pass, or channel between Caladesi Island and Clearwater Beach. It had strong current and we used to swim across. It closed after hurricane Elena. 

Here is where the picture originated and a little history:

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/wfla/vft/dunedin/