The poem is BULLDOZER TREADS

"Bulldozer Treads" illustration from Nancy Standlee for my "Dreams of the Turtle King" beach poem book.

The poem is Bulldozer Treads and the illustration is for a stanza in the poem ...

"The tread marks
of the bulldozers
crisscross each other
on the sand..."

On occasion, there would be bulldozers out on the beach. The trash on the beach was handled mainly by volunteers who walked the beach in the early morning. But there were times when the seaweed (another poem!) would gather on the beach in large mats and then the bulldozers would come out sweeping up and down the beach to collect the seaweed. I never saw what they did with it!

Mostly I saw the tracks after they had done their job, but once in a while I would see them trudging along the sand, doing their work.