Made in America

 

(NPR's photo)

living on credit and courage
broken dreams

brown pelicans wearing oil

big corporations watching the dow instead of the drill

the little people

big money

the Man

God's creatures

tar balls

threatened livelihoods

dead fish and drowned hopes

tired efforts

swimming in sad

pushing against potential

Spike Lee and Anderson Cooper

Presidents past and present

volunteers wiping blades of grass and foul feathers

fishing industry waits

families wonder why

I ache and cry

write and ache

read and watch

share shots 

aware of our fragility

futility

falliability