SALIN D'AIGUES MORTES
[ salty pink fields ]
...
salt lakes
bordered like fields
grazed by flamingos
the harvest is pink.
.
off in the distance
lit by a mediterranean sun
a castle sits, watching over this
rosy dominion.
.
the coffers are full
mountains of riches
white and gleaming
raked ashore by the men in tall boots.
.
water runs in and out
through channels
gates and sluices
it is hard work, in these fields.
.
but the real worker is a tiny algae
- halophilic...
it drinks in the sunlight
and by some alchemical process
akin to the green grass
it turns those energies
pink!
.
and when all is quiet
the wind but a whisper
there blooms on the surface
of all the pink fields
a kind of salt flower...
'fleur de sel'
...
