Sarah B. Cahalan

After the Stranding


Bleached-out bones collect in pockets 

of the marsh, snagged like combs

in winter’s hillocks of spartina.

Disassembled. A single vertebra

holds, still, fragments of the code

for an infant dolphin, for its frolics.


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Sarah B. Cahalan writes about natural history, hope/grief/faith, the layers of places and how those correspond with our own layers as people moving through time and place. She has poems, current or forthcoming, in Hog River Press, Poetry is Currency, Trampoline, and others. Sarah is from Massachusetts and is currently based in Dayton, Ohio.