"Land"

While Maheo listens,
The new water glistens.
There is not a sound
Anywhere to be found,
For nothing has been made.
Not even a single blade
From a fish does show;
Not from above or below.
Maheo has a lot to do
Before there can be dew.
He needs the kind help
From every creature, even kelp,
Before something called land
Can be worked by a hand.
For Maheo just used his Power
To create all, but a flower.
Even the lowly little coot
Scurries to find some loot
To build this thing, land.

Megan Delia Ratcliff

Fall 1995
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