Between salt and root,
the tricksters gather—
eels with stories,
crabs with secrets in their shells.
I listen with my feet in the mud.
From A Poem A Day: Australasia & the Pacific
A Poem A Day by Romilly Wilde
366 poems day-by-day for a leap year
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