This poem caused me a lot of writing headaches throughout the day, starting with the one word that was the prompt to build a poem off of: keel. I went metaphorical and nautical, but my earlier draft versions were so, eh, off, that I kept returning to the poem throughout the day, tinkering and revising, removing and adding, until I landed on something vaguely acceptable.
It’s a love poem, as it should be.
Peace (and Partners),
Kevin