Bird watchers have recorded in the past few years a species on Sandpiper native to the Mississippi Delta having negotiated a hazardous path through wind turbines to nest in the sand dunes and mud flats of England’s North West Coast.
There is a lot of talk about climate science but oil exploration has already begun in Iceberg Alley
The Offcomer
Bird watchers have recorded in the past few years a species on Sandpiper native to the Mississippi Delta and the river estuaries of the South East U.S.A. nesting in the sand dunes and mud flats of England’s Noth West Coast, an alien and hostile environment for them.
Little offcomer,
what brought you to
this unfriendly shore.
Blown by maverick winds
to rest and nest
in this strage land,
far from the feeding grounds
and safe havens generations
of your kind have found.
You belong in a delta
far away in the west
but were blown to this shore
by a maverick wind
fanned by human hands.
Catch the latest edition of Poetry Life and Times for more of my recent stuff plus several our our AD colleagues including Helga Ross, Kimmi van Kooten, Sara L Russell and Robin Ouzman Hislop.
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The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
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Jan xoxoxo
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Karen
Thanks for sharing!!
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Peace,
Bill