The barking black Lab
pounds down
the bulkhead wall,
to catch the tide
a hundred times
playing ball.
Back and forth
snorting sand,
shaking salt,
he halts, hunching
over a hole to fill it,
then vaults for home
exalted.
--Sandy Chadis
The poetry of long-time Provincetown summer visitor Sandy Chadis of Newtown, MA, has been selected for publication in the prestigious Grolier Poetry Prize Annual Edition 2002 (Cambridge, MA)