Full Tide

Full Tide immerses the reader in that threshold moment where ocean and shore engage in their ancient, ceaseless dialogue. Freeman's verse captures the sea's double nature: its terrible beauty and its hypnotic rhythm, the way light fractures across moving water and the mind quiets before such vastness. This is poetry of sensory immersion, where the reader can taste salt air and feel the pull of tide against stone. Written after Freeman abandoned the security of a career in insurance to pursue poetry full time, the poem carries the weight of someone who chose risk and meaning over comfort. It belongs to that tradition of English nature poetry that finds the infinite in a single wave, the eternal in a passing moment. For readers who seek stillness, who want to be transported to the edge of things, Full Tide offers three minutes of deep breath and raw beauty.