layers of history…forgotten…enduring

fused as stratified, ancient rock 

the rings of an old chopped tree 

pleats of pursuing waves

Little Neck Bay. low tide, mud bed

colonies of blue mussels lingering, clinging, drifting away

bands of salt marsh grass and reeds, dancing. plastics

a cluster of hills, razed, leveled

disappearing raccoons, rare coral-fingered opossums

beavers gone

plots dividing and re-dividing as cells 

rumors…speculations