As cars keep pace along shore

A refitted boat not much bigger than a tub

delivering supplies to Manitoulin Island
in November just before the ice

just before the end of the season

sank near Squaw Point. Driving to Leith

near Tom Thomson's grave (another local boy
who met his match in the water)

my mother points to the spot
the Hibou sank

she repeats stories told to her

and I see Captain McKay on the deck
of the Hibou dip beneath the surface.