Crescent City is One Enormous Cosmic Tidepool

Nature raves in Crescent City

The rain beats a drumroll on the earth

The ocean eats the coast

The wind tears the great trees limb from limb

The waves hammer the seastacks into sand

The human presence clings like

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa limpet to a rock, crying

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspplease, please

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsplet me stay

This article appears in The Fights for the Fourth and the Fifth.