Yancy Carpentier

“Things that come with the fog: horseshoe crabs, tall ships, and wandering hearts.”
― M. Kei, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4

“The Spanish fleet was beautiful and terrifying. The great battleships were clouds of sail scudding before the wind while their xebecs and frigates ran with them like greyhounds coursing alongside huntsmen.”
― M. Kei, Iron Men

“She talks as she sails, the old wooden boat -- of oyster days, and summer bays, and watermen grown old.”
― M. Kei, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4

“Even captains were pawns to the lords of the sea, who moved them – and sacrificed them – wither they would.”
― M. Kei, Men of Honor