Water is the Great Connector–
it’s roughly seventy percent
of us, and the Earth’s surface.
The water you drank today
likely sustained a dinosaur
sixty-six million years ago.
Small wonder if our actions
ripple right through it:
the acid we dump into streams
comes back raining on our heads.
Small wonder if my voice
carries clear across the bay.
Waves are easy to overlook
because they start out small:
maybe we’ll be surprised when
the rising tide over-takes us all.
10/13/15
Aphra's Pen 