Santa Barbara Island

Drying
dying in a teeming sea
the land sleeps skeleton scattered:

rabbit bones brittling white
weed grass feathered in wind
parchment shells coiled vacant.

Yet edging its summer-dry hills
the island fringe seeps life:

surf grass tide washed green
sea lions nosing in weed webs
water slugs suctioned to stone.

Bones left drying on land
its soul has fled to the sea
to feast on the livening waters.


Kathleen Irace
1976


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