A Moment

12:00 noon at 71/2 knots

motoring

On channel 16

monitoring.

Suddenly!

Ethyl B, from the Port Bahamas.

From our view, we were

all but blind.

Filled with tons of bananas.

A great white wall

Poised at our port quarter

to crush all.

Over taken from behind.

Bearing down,

we so small.

What a way to end a trip.

Just shy of the Chesapeake.

Question: Just why would she sneak?

I can hear the Captain say
(Of this interesting sport)

We put the fear of

God into them today

Whoa!

I cranked her hard to port.

A ghost wheel house?

Over we heel.

A big elephant.

A perplexed John Steele.

We, the lowly mouse.

One floating appliance,

a witness.

Got Peg’s heart beating.

This near miss.

This monkey business.

This, a moment of our death, cheating.