Randy Greene

English

19 November, 15:46

Based on what is happening in the beginning of the

poem, what sound do the repeated "buhs" most likely

connect with?

breaks from the blue-black

skin of the water, dragging her shell

with its mossy scutes

across the shallows and through the rushes

and over the mudflats, to the uprise,

to the yellow sand,

to dig with her ungainly feet

a nest, and hunker there spewing

her white eggs down

| into the darkness, and you think

- "The Turtle,"

Mary Oliver

o the laying of eggs

O building a nest

O coming out of the water

O sliding across the beach