Dragging the Waters

by Annie Neugebauer

“Keep looking!” she screamed

over the wind.

“Keep looking!”

Panic pitched her voice so high

I almost lost it

amidst the waves crashing

just beyond our feet.

“Yeh heard ‘er!”

the bearded man bellowed

from my right.

“We drag ‘em again!”

and he pulled

his corner of the net

deeper,

me and my corner

trailing with it.