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Teddy Roosevelt Park


Where Mini Crab

scurries over shells

between my steps

 

Where Forest

dangles her damp vines

down to my breath

 

Where Marsh

pulls his salt 

up to my nose

 

Where Egret 

flaps her wings

past me over reed rows

 

Where Dragon Fly

buzzes by

my ear to my knees  

 

Where Flying Fish

jumps up to tease me

belly flopping onto the creek

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Your Florida Preserve

 

Wooden pillars squeak in the afternoon wind

Waters slap against the shore

Not angrily but without end

 

Bleached bright pier reflects the sun

Man holds his pole on a “No Fishing” sign

Like a catch would have been fun

 

The sky so tantalizing blue

It fools you into thinking

The water is too

 

The sun also plays games with your mind

Shimmering off the murk...

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