Jun
18
Shadrach
Shadrach
Thanks to Marie Snavely
June 2010
Jun
18
Shadrach
With great sorrow I learned of Bob and Ann Bartels loss of their longtime pet (and friend), Shadrach. Shadrach, at 42, died suddenly. If you have a picture of the Island’s most famous parrot please either post it here or send it to me and I will do so for you.
Jun
13
That Sea – L.E. Wilson
THAT SEA
I first beheld the sea when I was twen-
ty two, immediately knelt to drink
to taste, first-hand, if it were really salt
(you never know–the stories could’ve lied)
first chance to dream beyond the blue hori-
zon’s edge, expand a midwest prairie’s view
to something grander: waves unceasing and
a smell unlike Lake Michigan’s, a stink
of fish and iodine, primordial
(the salt was true; let’s see about the tide)
a rocky beach, too cold to swim, but I
returned each day, and on the last I threw
into the surf a silver coin: a plea
for swift return to walk beside that sea.
L.E. Wilson
