Salt scent sending messages
From the Atlantic Ocean
A body of water that might be
The end of the world
Because who knows what’s really through
The vanishing point?
Fishy fragrance floating
From the green seaweed
Although the Gulf of Mexico
Has its share of redness
Also known as the Red Tide
Destroyer of manatees and fish.
Storm runoff pollutes
Sulphur Springs’ once-healing water
Filling dangerous sink holes
Sucking cars and people
Into shifting sands meant
To be a beach, not a city.
Hydroelectric power produced
By a Florida-Georgia dam
Where Lake Seminole and others
Contribute their fresh water
Lovely parks, lots of fish
Share the energizing of air conditioners.
Shallow-water well weeps
In my backyard, famous Florida aquifers
Water-filled layers of earth
Over 31,000 areas of known
Groundwater contamination
Better not get mine tested, ignorance is bliss…
© 2015 ViataMaja, WATER
*Title based on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge