EIGHTH GRADE ENGLISH

I,
a green turtle in a shell.

These poems —  

    Whitman's, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
    Jarrell's, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
    Auden's, "The Unknown Citizen"

— the sun and sea.



This poem first appeared in Hazmat Review, Fall 2006, Vol. 8, Issue 2.