Sarah B. Cahalan
After the Stranding
After the stranding
Bleached-out bones collect in pockets
of the marsh, snagged like combs
in winter’s hillocks of spartina.
Disassembled. A single vertebra
holds, still, fragments of the code
for an infant dolphin, for its frolics.
Back to Issue XII…
Mike Bove is the author of four books of poetry, most recently EYE (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023). His poems have appeared in Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, Rust & Moth, and others. He’s served as a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at Acadia National Park and is editor of Hole in the Head Review. Mike lives with his family in Portland, Maine where he was born and raised. Instagram: @portlandbove
