Sun frackled
surface skim,
slime cake
seabirds haggle
fishes skin, sponged
poached smelly
stank, spiked
fat cucumbers,
sea cabbage,
sweet knats
bristling through veils
swarm foam
eel grass, rock weed
sashaying kelp
fur
ocean
fractures,
ruptures,
air spews
salty seed mist,
recurring eons
in tide.
George Korolog
is an active member of The Stanford Writers Studio and has had his work published in numerous print and online magazines such as Red River Review, Connotation Press, Poets& Artists Magazine, The Monarch Review, Seventh Circle Press, riverbabble, Contemporary Haibun, Stone Highway Review, Blue Fifth, Red Ochre Lit, Blue Lake Review, Willows Wept Review and many others. Three of his poems will appear in the Whittaker Prize Anthology, "From Here to Back and There Again," published in February 2012.