Dolphins in distress

Dead and dying bottlenose dolphins are washing up along the Mid-Atlantic coast at an alarming rate. Since June, more than 120 dolphins have appeared on beaches from New York to Virginia—seven times the typical number. Early this month, the National Marine Fisheries Service declared the strandings “an unusual mortality event” requiring immediate attention. “All indications show there’s something serious going […]

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Poem – By Simon Perchik

  A click and its likeness can’t change, curled the way rain yellows though you hold on almost make out the grin that could be yours   –it’s been years, minutes and even with your arms apart you have forgotten the smell the fleece-lined gloves filled with dry leaves half paper, half iron half pinned to this snapshot still bleeding […]

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Poem – ON PORPOISE (By Ray Gallucci)

  ON PORPOISE   Am I watching the dolphins Or are they watching me, Somersaulting on backfins, While I swim clumsily?   At the junction of our worlds Where the land meets the sea, Somewhat shallow for their twirls, I can stand awkwardly.   I’m not native to water; They’re not native to land. Still each other we ought to […]

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