The Persistent Forward Motion of the Sea

Dear Mary,

As you recover, I am wishing you the peace, strength, and persistent forward motion of the sea, the clear-eyed animals, and the trees. May you find yourself walking among the dunes and black-watered ponds again very soon.

With all my best wishes, and with gratitude for all the strength your writing has given me over the years,

Clarisse

Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies naturalist, 2001-2005

and an admirer of your poetry

for many more years than that