“Treasures on the Edge” - Elizabeth Nelson
“Treasures on the Edge”
I gaze beneath the wash of white-gray-blue
over shapes that might be much-tumbled glass,
wrecked bladder wrack, a drifting twig,
and fall into August mornings long, long past,
perched on eons-worn, sun-warmed granite,
watching periwinkles rough and smooth, dog whelks,
sometimes limpets, sometimes sea stars or urchins,
all searching for food in tide-flooded crevices
before the water’s rough return forces them to cling
to the closest surface and wait for the turbulence to clear.
From “Nature Through Abstraction” at the Bryan Memorial Gallery September - December 2023.
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