Wednesday, October 17, 2012


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Defenders—consider
Bull Kelp and Splitleaf Rockweed
consider Common Coralline Seaweed
and Staghorn Bryozoan consider
Sea Pan and Encrusting Bryozoan
consider Red Jelly Fish
and Crimson Anemone consider
Aggregating and Plumrose Anemone
consider White-plumed Buried
and Swimming Anemone consider
Fish-eating and Tube Anemone and
consider Tube Worms the Giant
Nudibank and Hudson’s Doris
and Yellowmargined Cadlina

See the waters ebbing and flooding
clear for centuries to come see
the play of light on and beneath
waves and the shape of shadow
and light on rock and sand beneath
surface—see Pacific Giant Octopus
and Swimming Scallop see Wrinkled
Dove Shell and Leafy Hommouth
Frilled Dog-winkle and Blue Top
Snail—Northern Abalone and
Speckled Limpet—Red-flecked
Chiton and Giant Sunflower Star—
see all of this and nowhere the stain
of bitumen in the endless days to come

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