Ellen Gerneaux Woods

Notice on Wharf

Fishing trawlers crowd the

gray green water

traversed by arches

of the Yaquina Bridge

your 3 x 5 card

with plastic sleeve

foggy from moist air

stapled on corner

Nina Fleetwood,

Deckhand Min Exp

Crab. Shrimp, Halibut

Hardworking/God-Fearing

Ellen Gerneaux Woods is a writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her recent work includes a chapbook, The Watchful Heart Recedes (Finishing Line Press, 2021) and poetry in literary journals and anthologies: The Potomic Magazlne, Overgrowth Literary Press, Workers Write, Engines Idling, The Monterey Poetry Review, Snapdragon, Tranquility: Anthology of Haiku, among others. She is on the Prose staff of The MacGuffin, a print journal.