The Calusa’s Breath

 

The sea moves and sways

Across the vastness - caressing the sands

Where neither footprints nor dreams shore strays

For only eternal time remains unchanging –

Yet, Mother’s hands continually change

And so... we are drawn by the calling sounds;

Held still by our vulnerability – so strange.

 

The secretive manatee seeks out the Ibis

And wonders to the curious bird,

Where the Calusa’s breath is...

 

The Ibis replies with poetic words,

“Listen... the Calusa sleep within the sea’s shells.”