3/16 Sanibel Island, Florida
3/16
Sanibel Island, Florida
Dear Ones - the moon's a stamped gold coin
hanging above Ft. Myers' skyline, sky
that first blue mirror of evening, water
a green-blue version of sky, of moon,
and two dark fins of dolphins curve over
again and again, linking our worlds -
for a time I keep up with them, walking
the shore - and I want to say that not all
the beautiful money of the moon is enough
to buy what holds us together, the few
palms, the prickly pear, the tides, the gulls
scavenging the shells washed to shore.