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The Sea Turtle
by Neca Stoller
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Fishtailing on the blue
heart of the sky
thin clouds, more fragile than dreams.
At low tide the gray griddle of the Atlantic
discards a sea turtle like her son's float.
Bloated pinkish skin, still and reeking.
Its flippers splayed toward the dunes.
Something had taken bites across its shell.
A brown stuffing spills out
and a clutch of eggs,
some cracked, translucent,
all dead. In and out
the fiddler crabs feasting, feasting.
Copyright © 1999
Neca Stoller
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| Neca Stoller is the owner-manager of a cattle farm in south
Georgia, USA. She began with writing haiku and later free verse. Neca has been published in several
e-zines and print journals. Her first book of poetry is scheduled for publication in March of 1999, by DeeMar
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