Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Our Own Devices

South Brouhard Beach, Venice, FL


















Without our machines, how vulnerable we seem,

Curiosities, weak and fleshy and ill-adapted

To wind and water and sunlight and the tides,

No longer strengthened by a constant search

For food, drawn to what overpowers us,

Testing the surf just enough to thrill

At the nearness of death, at play

In the "Shark Tooth Capital of the World."



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