I’ve stood at low tide with my frizzy
hair puffing, looking for starfish.
I could never find them, with their simple
eyes, like everyone else’s family
they seemed to have better things to do.
I stood there hoping to see a glow,
or a pirate ship, or a shark
close enough to measure.
Meg Pokrass is an American writer living in the Scottish Highlands. A two-time winner of the Blue Light Book Award, her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including New England Review, Electric Literature, Five Points, waxwing, Plume, RATTLE, Atrium, Cottonmouth, Unbroken and elsewhere.
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