"Seaweed" illustration from Nancy Standlee for my "Dreams of the Turtle King" beach poem book.
The poem is Seaweed and the illustration is for a stanza in the poem ...
"Instead,
for long miles,
the sand is strewn
with clumps of seaweed..."
There were times I would walk the beach and it would be empty of objects, other times it would be covered with seas shells (another poem!) of all shapes and size. Then there were the times when the sand was blanketed by seaweed and kelp for long stretches of brown sliminess. Before it could start to rot and cause a stench for the tourist, they bulldozers (another poem!) would come and sweep up all the organic matter.
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