The Lighthouse Keeper

On the rocks

Esopus meadows lighthouse

"I want to marry a lighthouse keeper
And keep him company.
I want to marry a lighthouse keeper
And live by the side of the sea.
I'll polish his lamp by the light of day,
So ships at night can find their way.
I want to marry a lighthouse keeper,
Won't that be okay?"

- Erika Eigen

Flashing lightning, splitting timbers, hull and bulwark rent asunder, foundering on the jagged rocks, massive combers pounding reefs and somewhere beyond, crashing against the shore. Too far still for all those washed overboard, each one sinking beneath the waves, and the whole works, men, cargo and ship, scuttled to the bottom of the sea to be heard from again never-more.