Tai

The Island

One of my favorite places is next to an island
in the Pacific ocean in Mexico
with hundreds of colorful fish
many giant starfish
lots of stingrays
cruising along the ocean depth.

Divers deep down under the water with little
schools of fish cruising along near them.
The giant starfish were indigo with orange spikes
there were sunfish with yellow stripes.

And there was a sea-lion who was doing poses
and acting like a super model sun bathing on a rock.

There was a guy near where the boat docked
who made sand-blasted wooden carvings of
sea lions and other animals that live in the ocean.

I bought a large wooden fish for my dad who was still
in the United States and I bought my mother who was
in the United States as well a dolphin
that was another one of his carvings.

I was there with my grandmother and my
step grandfather