Broken Covenant

This is a poem by Richard Blanco, the gay, Latino poet, the first such person and only the fifth poet ever to participate in a Presidential Inauguration. He who will be reading one of his works on Monday.

Broken Covenant

after the storm rain                         scattered driftwood

starched sands     no footprints     of what once was

       the gossamer blue sails

       of man-o-wars

       gasping in the sun       pieces of broken coral

                                              snapped like wishbones

slivers of tiny fish                       a filmy green bottle

flickering on the shore

               a few reclaimed          a torn net

                   by the ebb

                            of a wave                    a lost buoy

a yellow bulldozer          heaps of spent seagrass

raking the sand

        diesel smoke like incense          a snapped fishline

        spiraling into the heavens

        in the name of the vanished              a dead fish

Here's the Richard's picture:

Nico Tucci / Courtesy Richard Blanco

A student is showing up soon, so best I get this up early & prepare for her arrival. Brr - only 19F out there right now.