shipwreck

Flotsam means the leftover bits and pieces of a shipwreck, while jetsam means items thrown overboard on purpose.

“He means Hespawoo,” Cassiopeia added, for indeed, “sheeted ghost” was a phrase taken from “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” an absolutely thrilling poem about a shipwreck that the children knew quite well.

And many fine poems have been written about shipwrecks, but only a foolish captain would knowingly set sail into stormy seas.

Especially when there are so many shipwrecks, headless horsemen, gloomy talking birds, and other equally fascinating topics to write poems about?

Some three million shipwrecks lie on the ocean floor, and along with them, much of human history hides beneath the waves.