Elbow Cay reef used to look a lot more like this than it does now. Corals and fish don’t like super hot water and have essentially “left the building” where I live. But the reef is still alive in our dreams.
It’s permitted
to receive solace for whatever you did
or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful
human…
So you’ll need a boat. You could rent or buy,
but, for the sake of repairing the world,
build your own…
…In one night
we could dream back everything lost.
…There is much to fear as a creature
caught in time, but this
is safe. You need no defense. This
is just another way to know
you are alive.
~ HOW TO APOLOGIZE, by Ellen Bass, (fragments)
