SALIN D'AIGUES MORTES

[ salty pink fields ]

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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'

 

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