Poems on tidepool creatures
Beadlet (Actinia equina)
Small and malleable,
Weathering the warmth, waiting for the storm,
Blooming once drowned.
↳ credit: www.arrancoast.com // Carthage Tunis
Stalked (Calvadosia cruxmelitensis)
See-through, see through;
Reaching out with many legs,
Radial brain rots.
↳ credit: Stauromedusa UK // Flickr, Guy-F
Brittle (Ophiothrix fragilis)
Take a part,
Watch it twitch, wait for growth,
Wait for the bounce back.
↳ credit: Animalbase, Cédric Audibert // iNaturalist