windhover

Updated: May 2, 2025

It dropped out of view instantly, and exposed the blurred apparition of a hill in pursuit of us the hill ran in to run over us and in that very moment of crisis the slope of wet deck appeared again, and the lashed boat. The cold iron was wet and slippery, but I grasped it firmly, as though that were an essential condition of existence in such a place. The Windhover, too, looked so small.

H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson - London River