There had been a storm and a 100 years wave had struck many fishing vessels sunk I found on the beach a yellow southwestern cap I wondered if the owner of the cap was on deck when the mountain of water hit and splintered his boat into pieces that would drift ashore collected as winter wood for the poor Had the wave knocked him out, and he died unconscious of the horror of the raging ocean no time to think of his wife or friends left behind, and fishes would eat him Maceral are fond of human flesh, I found a finger once when gutting a maceral, it read βfrom Maria forever.β I took the waterproof put it on a stone perhaps a passer-by might find it put it on his head not knowing about the tragedy at sea.