Brandt’s Cormorants   Ghoulish cormorants forage California Current, plunge forty feet below ocean waves, skewer their next silvery meal,...

Triolets - Seeking After Driftwood “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected on the deep.” - William James  ...

By Ralph La Rosa My inner fish alerts me, when I’m peckish, that through eons I’d been a dish delish, to fish! That even now I nosh kin’s...

The Collector   I once saw a lighthouse that pulled poems to the shore: sleek fishy poems that cut through the water like shooting stars,...

By Beata Stasak     Fear prickling my feat try to ignore the pounding in my ears five meters beneath me the dark...

3 May 2022 On Russia's Invasion of Ukraine   It will go To the wrong Town. And             Others             insulated Their windows....

Pure escapism I’ll bet she’s the type that secretly reads door-stop Gothics and would go for a square cleft jaw and strong silence if she...

See How They Watch You    See how they watch you: a neighbors’ dog lying supine at your feet, cats in every alley with a hungry look, a...

Droughts (dry sources) The dry watercourse. A stream bed that led to a dry source, the way lit by glow-worms. Something about water on...

The Sea   And then came a primordial sea, by imposing waves and raging foam, a grave incessant howl its battle cry, an annihilatory storm...

A Lake A beautiful lake -- an unfinished plate of soup made from the sky and finely cut pickled cucumbers of the reflected trees. And a...

Sometimes someone's phone call is Sisyphus of my barren times. This, my thought may not be like that of the “What’s in a name circa” when...

Scientific Value of the Subtle Cuttle Obviously, cuttlefish dream since they are made out of colors and are the shape of sound. What we...

Becomings of a sea A girl broke the soil and turned into sea how, each had the same question like feelings of hunger by empty tummies...

Catastrophic Molt —For elephant seals when the top layer of fur and skin molts, it leaves them unable to swim or feed for a month....

Begin Again begin with the ocean the wet sand hard underfoot the waves seeping in soft foam sticking to ankles as the water pulls us soak...

Brown Pelicans Huntington Beach Wetlands They hover outside the sanctuary, Between sand and sea— Prayers when flying or floating, Moving...

Love Juices —Did love whack you over the head, multiple times, even when you least expected it? —It did. —Did it splatter you in its...

Standard Lesson You take the monster to the sea because the nervous system runs on sodium: voltage-gated channels conducting ions...

Stowaways i. The hagfish that (burrows) into the corpse of a beluga. ii. Pearlfish (shelters) in the unmentionable of a sea cucumber....