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Let us not forget the silver-headed
minnows, their presto con brio flash
and exuberant, spear-shaped shimmer.
See them now?
Their fins are barely a-flicker. Instinct
propels them but their once-vivid slice
through water is nothing but the faintest quiver.
See them?
Mouths shut tight and belly up, they might
easily be mistaken for cutlery clattering
in a rimless ocean sink.
See?
There's no music left in them, no sound
stirring in this floating orchestra of cartilage
and bone. This was no accidental storm;
?
the earth recoils in disbelief, her grief
is deep, our indifference to her, unfathomable.
This is a solemn and vicious tide
.
with power to turn salt water sour; a viscous bile
that dulls the shining scales of fish
and rusts the sleeping turtle's shell.
CB - on the Deepwater Horizon environmental catastrophe
April, May, June, July, August, September 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. . .
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