Tuesday, August 22, 2023

City Pond

A letter was circulated by a Neighborhood Watch Group advising us to steer clear of a near-by lake. That's all well and good for us humans but what about other critters?


City Pond


Earlier and earlier in summer

a cauldron of vichyssoise

thick with pea-green algae appears.

Ducks on logs preen, clean

feathers dripping with chlorophyta.

Turtle hatchlings dragging slime

slip and slide on rocks.

From a willow a kingfisher

watches the water below, flies away.

No fish? Poor visuals?


Parks and Rec pound

              "Toxic Algae Warning"

                          signs into the ground.


But the wildlife can't read.



Marilyn Aschoff Mellor

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