Stars Beneath the Ships

Stars Beneath the Ships

Publication Date: September, 2017

Publisher: Mount Abraxas

Pages: 86

Format: Hardcover

Author: Oliver Smith

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1991. As we arrived at Terschelling aboard the ketch, Raniki, another boat fled the beautiful, but desolate shore; its crewman waved and shouted at us. We waved back as we anchored the boat in the shallows so she would stand on her twin keels at low tide; then we could walk ashore (and avoid harbour fees). Out came the guitar and booze and we commenced a night of partying. A week later we remained optimistic that one day a spring tide would float us free. These stories contain sailors marooned, or exiled on islands; boats afloat, adrift, beached, or wrecked.

Contains "Deeper Flowers Thrive," "Crocodiles in the Sugar," "The Voice of Your Redeemer, The Songful Morning Near," "Blood, Dark Rainbow Bliss," "Magdalene," and "A Garland of Rue."