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Poetics Presents

Patricia Lange

Patricia Lange was born in the USA and is now a Canadian citizen living in a friendly town near Ottawa, Canada's capital.  She says, "Everything I am, everything I do—wife, mother, grandmother, medical assistant, painter, musician—contribute to the 'me' that is a poet." She is a member of the Canadian Poetry Association and a new student at WVU.  She has written poetry all of her life.

Turtle Beach

I glide
without effort through
the feeding grounds
leaving soft fields of algae
and seaweed to sway
in my wake

Disturbed youngsters
hide in the sodden fronds
that float like jelly
nannies grooming them
into seaworthy
adolescents

I wait
offshore for darkness
conserving energy, treading
receding waves filled
with tumbling grains
of white sand

My experience
does not ease the shock
of this clumsy ascent
to the nesting place
where I carefully
deposit the future

Copyright ©2004 by Patricia Lange




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