tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4111931585721808061..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: AlbatrossUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34287906669134170072011-05-14T09:00:50.425-07:002011-05-14T09:00:50.425-07:00Indeed, the greatest wingspan of any living bird.....Indeed, the greatest wingspan of any living bird... but almost every species and subspecies of the Albatross is now threatened with extinction.<br /><br />It seems that our plastic trash floats to the farthest reaches of the globe, as though the oceans were our garbage disposal units.<br /><br />The reverberations of this:<br /><br />"...floating debris often becomes covered with a layer of plant-life, marine crustaceans and their eggs, which is appealing to albatross..."<br /><br />are almost too horrifying to consider.<br /><br />To the albatross, the lethal bits of plastic come with, in effect, a delicious sugar-coating.<br /><br />Clever, clever homo sapiens.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76025264344106015632011-05-13T12:09:02.567-07:002011-05-13T12:09:02.567-07:00Well, now that Blogger has been semi-restored to v...Well, now that Blogger has been semi-restored to virtual life, I would like to be the first to seem to try to say how much I liked Reunion and the Marvell poem, as well as their images. The Marvell poem kept me semi-together over the past day-and-a-half. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62674261998121338372011-05-13T11:10:17.653-07:002011-05-13T11:10:17.653-07:00Thanks for the poem - and the photos. Neat stuff.Thanks for the poem - and the photos. Neat stuff.Peter Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17806372860467057912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75605976957369366602011-05-12T07:19:21.658-07:002011-05-12T07:19:21.658-07:00Indeed, the greatest wingspan of any living bird.....Indeed, the greatest wingspan of any living bird... but almost every species and subspecies of the Albatross is now threatened with extinction. <br /><br />It seems that our plastic trash floats to the farthest reaches of the globe, as though the oceans were our garbage disposal units.<br /> <br />The reverberations of this: <br /><br />"...floating debris often becomes covered with a layer of plant-life, marine crustaceans and their eggs, which is appealing to albatross..."<br /><br />are almost too horrifying to consider. <br /><br />To the albatross, the lethal bits of plastic come with, in effect, a delicious sugar-coating. <br /><br />Clever, clever homo sapiens.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-621443440195777692011-05-12T06:01:55.901-07:002011-05-12T06:01:55.901-07:00Oh, God!
I agree with ACravan: this post should be...Oh, God!<br />I agree with ACravan: this post should be shown everywhere. It's one of the most compelling statements on what we're doing to Nature that I have ever seen.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36432971819567106632011-05-11T07:32:58.301-07:002011-05-11T07:32:58.301-07:00Wonderful as this is as a poem and beautiful as th...Wonderful as this is as a poem and beautiful as this is (until you reach the bottom image) as a BTP post, its true value, I think, is the truth it reveals, publicizes and makes unforgettable. PETA, WWF, and Defenders of Wildlife should all post this. The poem is compact but has great breadth until it falls to earth. To think "the eye of<br />the storm a place for rejoicing" -- imagine that. I really love albatrosses. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57122122381393283812011-05-11T06:49:26.534-07:002011-05-11T06:49:26.534-07:00Tom,
Yes indeed, on that twelve-foot wingspan, &q...Tom,<br /><br />Yes indeed, on that twelve-foot wingspan, "Magnificent in dreamed/ air" -- but not with its belly full of plastic, alas. . . .<br /><br /><br />5.11<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible <br />top of ridge, blue jay on redwood fence<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> parallel place, now that is<br /> is therefore there is<br /><br /> also, relative to both, how<br /> physical meaning time<br /><br />lines of waves breaking across channel,<br />osprey with fish flapping toward ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com