This is a ‘poem’ I wrote late one night whilst being maudlin, reflecting on mortality and the futility of life; one minute you’re here, the next second you’ve gone. As if, in mid sentence there is no textbook beginning to end, and time to reflect with a satisfactory conclusion. Anyway….. I did think of a photograph I had taken which might suit the prose. It was on a beach in Dar-e-Salaam in Tanzania. The couple were looking out to sea and unaware of me. The shadow of the palm tree ‘made’ the picture. I was thinking about putting something on the horizon as a point of focus. I came up with the yacht which was on the River Mersey…in Devonport, Tasmania. I edited and revised the text and hopefully merge it into the image. I put the result through a filter to soften the scenario.