30 Hope Poems: 3. Piping Plover

Day 3 of my National Poetry Month project of 30 Hope Poems focused on native plant and animal species that are protected under the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act.
Hopes for a Piping Plover    Piping Plover (Wikipedia)
between high tide lineand rolling dunessome undisturbed sandto scrape a hollowplace some pebblesbits of shells and layfour eggs in peace
no intrudersno dogsno humans
as the young hatchand patter over sandlearn to pick at seaweedand scurry and pauseall along the waterlinefor Atlantic-chilled mealsof mollusks and worms


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Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is listed under the Massachusetts Endangered Species act as Threatened. See Piping Plover in the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program.
Write!What species are Endangered, Threatened or of Special Concern where you live? What information can you find about them? What hopes can you imagine for them? Write your own hope poem and post in the comments to share.
Holly Thompson (www.hatbooks.com) is an author who lives in Japan but grew up in Massachusetts where she is now sheltering during the coronavirus epidemic, getting outside to walk and observe wildlife whenever she can.