Padre Island, State Beach The husbands have left their wives, and thereis a little girl on the sandbar trying to bend spoonswith her little head. The detritus of the garbage dumprolls in – used needles, seaweed corpus. Driftwoodused to be the bark of a mangrove, of a ginkgo,but now it’s just wood. The names, all…
Plaque For A Kelp Forest Praise to the oxygen producers! Those underwater ropestossed and tangled in the gyres. Up, up to the second skyand wriggling about, housing the sea lions and whales against the teeth and pounding storms. But, oh, how can praise be expressed in a tongue foreign to you! Plantsdon’t speak, barely see… And…