One For EarthDay

Green?

the reclamation of beached sand dollars
counted in the thousands,
so much treasure for a child
looking for one and only one
on the shore;

I can’t blame this one on the sewer
Can’t blame it on defecation debris
Or the mud of dirty dredgers
Polluting my beach, my sea
And the shore;

My green’s gone black with tar
And that ink’s in the money promised
To clean it all up, those dead
Tarred and feathered, bunkered--
Oiled to the shore;

Four big spills in a summer
Fifty new birds endangered
Zero federal hazmat help
And my ocean’s still
Unclean.
Unclean.

Labels: earthday, oil spill, poetry, san francisco

posted by Rain at 9:32 AM