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2011-06-06 Steina eg Steini 
Faxafloi Bay the Hungry Hundred 

The sun is playing with the shadows 
On a distant Iceland mountain. 
The blue sky and the evening snow
Mix cocktails on a far horizon 

A fishing boat bobs red and white 
On Flaxaflói in baby whitecaps 
Tomorrow's dinner going to work 
To provide for the Hungry Hundred 

The trawler kicks the waves aside
Reflecting sunset on redwhite beam 
Sun licks snow from distant peaks 
Shadows deepen sides of mountains
footed in a calming sea 

Whitecaps now have lost their anger 
Calming breeze on deep blue main 
Steina and Steini stones are watching  
Basaltic rocks in a setting sun

This poem first saw daylight in 2011
when Diane (who was born here in 1953)
and I stopped off at ... Keflavik ... for lunch
... in Reykjanes ... with views of Faxafloi,
the boats and the mountains.