Where the ocean rages

against black stone,

and the wind whispers

older names than France,

there a mother stands.

White covering of lace,

lifting like a sail,

eyes not fixed on the horizon,

but anchored to the child at her breast.

The sea consumes.

The sea gifts.

The sea shifts without regard

to the whims of men.

Boats vanish into grey distance.

Bells hum in small stone chapels.

The sea considers its mood

to shift

or to gift.

But she the guardian of the future holds.

Not as saint cast in gold,

not as queen carved in marble,

but as quiet endurance.

Her arms are a harbor.

Her breast, a promise.

Her gaze, the map home

for those who survive the storm.

En Bretagne.

In the land of standing stones

and restless tides.

Mother of wind.

Keeper of line.

Granite-hearted,

salt-blessed.

The world may break against Bretagne’s cliffs,

but in her arms

the future lives.

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