earth note 59

provincetown, massachusetts

white underside of a humpback's tail
a series of creamy sand dunes
position themselves
between purple sundown ocean spray
and a nest of juniper pines
their rough green branches
needling our impatience
of living
between morning and evening stars
a cricket song from the hollow
is a million voices

--- e b bortz

(published in Lummox Journal, 2004)
(published in Animals Without Backbones,
Green Panda Press, August 2007)
(published in earth notes and other poems, Least Bittern Books, 2015)