"A Mollusc Clicks Shut" - Original poem about the precarious lives of many bivalves
A mollusc clicks shut
just like it's name.
If it's a bivalve, it has to protect
it's mantle.
From,
the Ray
the Starfish
the Otter
the Worm
the Grouper
the Crab
and the Ginglymostoma.
Blind and robust, it lays anchor
and breathes.
For twenty years, thirty years, forty years, fifty.
Unless it's a scallop {!}
They, can swim {~}
Poem by Danielle Wasserman
