The Blue Prairie| Joanna M. Weston that blue stuff going up and down it's the ocean     hang on don't walk on it      Jesus did      and had to CPR Peter      when he followed don't jump in it unless you're Jonah and understand whales climb down     dip a toe in it       ouch     cold       this Pacific swim in it if you must but remember it goes to Japan       too far to run smells bad if you take it home in a bucket with shells and a single star-fish

JOANNA M. WESTON M.A. Has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty years. Has two middle-readers, THE WILLOW-TREE GIRL and THOSE BLUE SHOES, in print.