Otter Sight - Larry Robinson

[Larry Robinson]

Otter Sight


After three days of rain
the Laguna is doing its old job -
keeping the river from flooding downstream.
A vast sheet of water welcomes
incoming flights of mallards and grebes.
Egrets poke around the margins,
their serpentine stealth yielding
bounties of frogs and crawdads.

Ripples spreading around the bend of the current
herald their whiskered faces:
the otters I have long heard of 
but never, until now, seen.

The new neighbor says
“I bought the place for the view.”
I say “You got a good one.”

	- Larry Robinson