Springs used here as a noun meaning spring tides. On admiralty charts the depths of water shown in fathoms is that found at the lowest point of the tide. This is the low spring tide occurring just after the new moon and known to navigators as "Low water springs".

Although my last collection, Charon Memoirs of a Ferryman was entirely made up of sonnets, under normal circumstances I tend to consider the sonnet as a gentle form of poetry. Content here involves the sea in one of its gentler moods, so I felt that the sonnet form was the one to go for.

The artwork here has been admired, so many thanks to garygb for that one.

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