Atlantic Crossing

Written for dVerse Poets Pub –
Open Link Night hosted by Grace.
For my grandparents, parents, and all
brave immigrants following their dreams.

Thirty days of salt and silence,
the old world shrinking into fog,
children sleeping on the decks,
bread and dreams and Rosary beads.

Then a torch lifted from the water….
La Statua, gray in morning mist….
and a thousand hands gripped the rail
as if the ship itself had stopped breathing.

Napoli was a shadow now.
This harbor, terrifying and bright,
smelled of coal smoke and promise
and futures waiting to be made.

NAR©2026

This is “America” by Neil Diamond

OpenLinkNight #408

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