Sandpipers Quotes

“The only living things in sight
were the little sandpipers & the black-headed laughing gulls,

through the wrack line glittered with flotsam: waxy garlands
we called sea snakes--whose pouches contained hundreds of tiny whelks--

& the cracked armature of the prehistoric horseshoe crabs, barnacles
fastened to their burnished backs & tails.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems