Río Lagartos

thatch-roofed hut
with stick walls
crickets were singing

village posada
agua
hibiscus tea

Yucatan, Mexico
ragged mangrove swamp
salt encrusting dead stumps

black coral

fishing for octopus

a child sitting on blue steps

blue-black silt
seagrass

pelican rookery awash in crude

oil rig spill
in the south

stained tortoise eggs

Photo Credit

Cane Cholla With Fower – Wikimedia Creative Commons

First published in Serai, Volume 23, issue 2, 2010

Guest Author Bio

Ilona Martonfi
Ilona Martonfi Author of two poetry books, Blue Poppy, (Coracle Press, 2009.) Black Grass, (Broken Rules Press 2012). Published in Vallum, Accenti, The Fiddlehead, Serai. Founder/producer of The Yellow Door and Visual Arts Centre Readings, co-founder of Lovers and Others. QWF 2010 Community Award.

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