Tidepools

Swept into the tidepools

from an existing life

we find the challenge changing

We are separate now

from the wide ocean

and it’s maul and churn

In the tidepool

we’re bound to

all life in manner

And all matter

of wonder and worry

we’ve left behind, in ocean.

We can’t know

in intimate detail

for the tidepool must have boundaries

We can’t go

in search as well

from tidepool to tidepool

in horry debate

In the tidepool

we blend

to begin a life

As one species

of many

And waste

away our knowledge

of ocean

And after-life

while tidepool dries

stark in sun

And we, blind

to the wide ocean,

look to tidepools

once again.

11/19/05