Sea Wolf Books: Poetry
Sea Wolf Books offered an ocean-centric poetry-writing station with poetic inspiration and writing prompts available to folks of all ages during our Winter Waters Weekend. As promised, we have published the poetry written here! Thank you to everyone who participated.
Untitled, by Clark Kocurek
Living purple caltrops
Hungry, devouring
Crunch and nibble
Spawning new spines
Transmute the swaying
Forest of the salt
Into yet another
Wet and rocky wasteland
When the kelp returns
The fish will dance
Among the fronds
And the whales will
Region the chorus of
Towering algae
Racing for sunlight
In the shifting tide
On the Edge, by Kim Foster
One is the path that cuts through
Four are the winds that bless you
On this edge of empire
The west behind us
Fierce waters beyond
We are old roots beneath
Basaltic earth
We are the stone heart
Unyielding
The Heads, by Heather Carpenter
My steps on familiar trail
This old place is always new to me
Home is a changing tide
Up River, by Charlie J. Stephens
Up river is where we first walked
Now so familiar
All winter we go alone, strip down to bone
to sink ourselves to the bottom
Emerge freezing and more alive
It is the medicine we most need
That one dogwood tree who survived the fires will send out green soon
In the summer the kids prefer
the shallow beach with salamanders
Above our heads, swaying branches, sometimes bats, sometimes owls
We sleep there when we can
A quiet bank to ourselves with the darkest sky of meteors
Last month we saw elk on the Elk
Those huge bodies, a miracle they can make it here
In this time of fences and highways and roads
Death comes for the living, but we can try
They raised their heads and kept grazing
Their beautiful eyes a testament