
Linda Hogan — Song for the Turtles of the Gulf
Poetry Unbound
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Introduction
P podrigotuma wrote the poem after teaching at a retreat centre in Washington state. She was moved to write something about what she could see, but also about the threat that lurked underneath. The eyes of another intelligence than ours, maybe greater, with claws, flippers, plastron forgive us for being thrown off true. Forgive our trespasses in the eddies of water where we first walked.
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