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El Laguno del Espiritu Santo

29 February 2008
Everglades Week
El Laguno del Espiritu Santo

Not knowing what to do
with the map of South Florida,

impenetrable expanses of water and blades
that were not gold, not silver, not anything

valuable, those Spaniards dismissed it,
named it for the holy spirit, moved on.

I wade into high sunlit grasses. Order
stirs in the sawgrass prairie wind.

A wood stork sails its cross over me.
In the slough, the anhinga dives

over and over, then spreads its wings
to dry. Water is

the sacrament. A gator lies still,
the turtle in his teeth.


by Anne McCrary Sullivan, AIRIE poet, 2002

The Poetry Friday round-up is at Kelly Fineman's today.
Lots of Leap Day Poems...
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S/V Mari Hal-O-Jen

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