Grandfather, cast your shadow through the tide,
let his line pull quiet thunder from the dark.
Salt climbs the hull like slow white years;
your palms, still printed on his shoulders,
steer the reel while moonlight braids our names.
Deep below, a silver ache remembers land—
he breathes you in the curl of every wave,
and I, small on the pier, hold all three hearts
beating in the hush between the floats,
until the ocean folds, soft as linen,
and carries every gone voice home.