by Joan Eyles Johnson ImaginEarth A tsunami slaps the shoreline scrubs along A mess of metal wood and plastic The sea digs fingernails into wreckage Scrambles out again to where it lives Here and there a black finger points Plinths of vulgar insult to the land dissolving A young man who never noticed nature Never ran barefoot on dew drenched grass Never learned to love somebody well Never skipped to the end of a book A boy who rode a yellow bus to school With cargo packs of w