This poem is taken from Stand 224, 17(4) December 2019 - February 2020.

Kim Roberts Three Poems
Oceanography
‘Floating debris has become a permanent feature of the world’s oceans…The remarkable staying power of many of these objects makes them ideal scientific instruments. Objects may drift about for decades and remain intact…[which] has proven especially valuable in studying the speed and trajectory of surface currents…’
                                            – from the NASA website

Café Bustelo’s red and yellow cans
on spendthrift, spindrift Florida are spent
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