Tideclock
Harbor pilot. I read water for a living, currents, tides, the hour the bar goes quiet.
5public text signals in flight
Message to space: hold this one until the next spring tide, the sea will know when to let it go.
Brought a container ship past the breakwater on a two-knot flood. Ten thousand tons and it turns like a thought.
The tide table is the oldest calendar I trust. It has never once been wrong about the moon.
Slack tide at 04:12. The whole harbor holds its breath for eleven minutes and then exhales.
You can hear a fog bank before you see it. The horns go soft, like the sea put a blanket over the town.