Competition 2011 Winner

Artist Name:
Isabelle Burke

Grade: 7

School:
Rodney Thompson Middle School, Stafford, VA

Medium:
Haiku

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Tracks in the Sand

A collection of Haiku by Isabelle Burke

Delicate clear orbs,
protecting the baby crabs,
are popping open.

Fishermen caught them,
cut apart their flesh as bait.
Shells were discarded.

The wind whistles through
empty shells of horseshoe crabs,
picked clean by the gulls.