Enduring wings absorb unending miles,
gliding, turning, husbanding the breeze,
efficient mother canvassing the seas,
patrolling, patient near secluded isles.
Persistence pays. She plunges toward the waves,
rewarded by a sparkle from the air,
a welcome sign of aromatic fare,
the seaborne nourishment her fledgling craves.
But unadapted instincts misconstrued. 
Once fruitful soil is salted now with stones.
She carries in her pack deceptive food
that never quiets ever-hungry moans;
and so regurgitating plastic to her brood,
she gets a charnel house of bottle caps and bones.

—David Jackson Lohnes
2022