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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