Someone Inside

The whelk shell,
a potential treasure
just about the tideline
as the tide was going out
heavier than to be expected
until I noticed
someone inside
his legs barely exposed
a crab inside the warming shell
cast out into deeper waters


August 9, 2009
visit on August 6, 2009
to Beavertail Lighthouse
and rocks below
Jamestown, Rhode Island
www.beavertaillight.org
and visit on August 7, 2009
to North Kingstown, RI
town beach