Barnacles

When surrounded by the ocean, you open
and your feasting feathers find food
too small for the human eye
you harvest – underwater fishing families
casting nets, sifting the sea

This is a tiny ode, published by Washington Writers Publishing House in August, 2024. I pulled this ode from a slightly longer poem written during my poem-a-day challenge in April. All the poems I wrote during that month were ekphrastic poems inspired by my own photographs. Here’s the photo that inspired Barnacles – along with the longer version of the poem beneath…