Glaciers once receded slowly at their own pace
Not so today the underwater grass and oyster beds
Acres and acres gone fast missing, uncounted dead
In a silent losing war with the swelling human race
Posts Tagged ‘oyster’
Beneath the Surface
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged algae, Chesapeake, dead zone, glacier, oyster, underwater grass, water pollution on August 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bay Ghosts (four haiku)
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Algonquian, buoy, Calvert Cliffs, Captain John Smith, Chesapeake, explorer, fossil, oyster, sharks' teeth, shell on August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A path of crushed shells
Oyster ghosts’ complaining shards
A crunch underfoot