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Photograph: Robert Hegerat

Rosalee van Stelten is a Victoria author whose latest book, Pavlov's Elephant, is published by Frontenac House.




© 2006 Rosalee van Stelten

sea lettuce

relentlessly the algae creep
on lapping tide
fed on sewage outfall
filling coves with wrinkled isles
archipelagos, mottled green
ropes that settle in tawny
hummocks, smothering
driftwood, rock and sand, choking

life beneath, fetid breath
of decaying cells fouling
fair autumn wind

     

creep
tide
outfall
isles
green
tawny
smothering
choking

breath
fouling
wind

 
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