Angles of View

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

A place where many come to enjoy circling around the pond...
   ... a runner's track, a walker's trail... or a pathway to nature...
       I guess it all depends on the angles of view...

Wrack Zone

Crane Beach, Massachusetts

On the verge of the sea... where ebbing tides leave the canvas of streams and sea-plants,
   and Piping Plovers time their visits to forage for food...
   ... this is called a "wrack zone"...
   ... sounds like a zone where things destroyed are deposited,
         and "things destroyed" in human jargon are the things one can simply throw away...

Looking at these sea-plants and those nimble birds,
   I am enchanted by the vitality of the whole scenery,
     and I simply cannot call this world a "wrack zone"...

Well-Timed Crowds

Crane Beach, Massachusetts

The Trustees have opened Crane Beach to the public after months of being COVID-19 closed.
   At the time when avian crowds gather here to raise their young...
   ... or take a rest on their way to the north...

   ... the sand grasps their steps, the air their personas... 
    ... and in the midst of all this motion, a thought... I am just an outsider...

Clovering

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

COVID-19 has stopped the mowing of pastime meadows
    and opened the space and time for clovers to bloom...
    Sprinkled flowers around overgrown grassy surfaces... and bees... the faces seldom seen here...
  
    ... imbued with the energy of release...