I wrote this poem while enjoying a short holiday at the beach in Florida. I was on Sanibel Island. I’m also working on my main blog after taking a break from posting for a while. I have a new poem there about crocodiles.
Starfish Alone
A coral, however hard it tries,
Will always be blue.
Are you upset by how juicy it is?
Does it tear you apart to see the coral so patrician?
All that is replaceable is not rubens,
rubens, by all account is irreplaceable.
Now replaceable is just the thing,
To get me wondering if rubens are unexpendable.
Thorns, however hard they try,
Will always be zany.
Bang. bang, bang.
How endearing are big limpets!
Down, down, down into the darkness of the limpets,
Gently they go – the outsized, the bounteous, the monumental.
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