Baby+Turtle+Poem


 * turtles[[image:Culebra_2009_110.jpg width="574" height="558" align="right"]]**
 * by tfalcone**

early morning blushes shell pink when the turtles awaken beneath their incubating blanket of sand alongside the turquoise and frothy white coast sleepy-eyed, I arrive to the wild scene already unfolding in slow mo

hatchlings scrabbling out into the dawn leaving scrawling signature tracks as flippers row furious furrows to dodge taunting enemies of the sky to the sea's alluring beckoning call home... to dive once twice three times gone... silence. until... some thirty years later when... the early morning is shell pink and the turtles awaken sleepy-eyed, some ninety daze from whence their mother turtle had returned... to the same exact spot alongside their coast of turquoise and frothy white.