Everglades Florida Storm Clouds

"Everglades Florida Storm Clouds"

The Everglades

Green and blue and white, it is a flag
for Florida stitched by hungry ibises.

It is a paradise of flocks, a cornucopia
of wind and grass and dark, slow waters.

Turtles bask in the last tatters of afternoon,
frogs perfect their symphony at dusk—

in its solitude we remember ourselves,
dimly, as creatures of mud and starlight.

Clouds and savannahs and horizons,
its emptiness is an antidote, its ink

illuminates the manuscript of the heart.
It is not ours though it is ours

to destroy or preserve, this the kingdom
of otter, kingfisher, alligator, heron.

If the sacred is a river within us, let it flow
like this, serene and magnificent, forever.

-Campbell McGrath

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Color Changing Fine Art Print
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Composition by: EFX Gallery
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Keywords: storm, clouds, everglades, swamp, march, landscape, water, reflection, nature, florida, vegetaion, FL, sunshine state, map, boat tour, weather, alligators, thunderstorm, hurricanes

Source: "The Everglades", Copyright © 2016 by Campbell McGrath. This poem was commissioned by the Academy of American Poets and funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Imagine Your Parks grant. https://poets.org/poem/everglades