Breakwater

Rockport Granite

By: Charles Giuliano - May 26, 2016

Breakwater

The Flynns
Hearty Irish lads
Grandfather’s family
Settled in Canada
Quarrymen
Made their way to
New Hampshire
The Granite State
Where he was born
Moved to Rockport
Worked the stone
Alongside Finns
Brawny men
Chiseled stone
Leaving vast pits
Now filled with water
Fed by springs
Risky swimming
Bottomless deep
Looking out
Tip of Rockport’s
Bearskin Neck
The vast breakwater
My family
Labored to create
Bulwark against
Breaking waves
Fierce winter storms
Sheltering tranquil
Sandy Bay
Manet in Latin
For the granite
Means that
It endures