Marilyn This island's miles from amenities. Its one Harbor's got rocks. Its basic, ash-slaked soil is not Much good for cultivation. Tigers, bears And wolves compete for food, for human Sustenance. When it's not snowing, it's hot.
Cyclones swarm the fields every month or so, And hurricanes are common.
Somewhere here, somewhere Inland, is the spring De Leon never found. Lyn Coffin who lives in Michigan, serves as an editor at Michigan Quarterly Review. Last year she entered her first poetry slam, and won. The Blue Moon Review, All Rights Reserved.