Researchers

Researchers

Dr Abe V Rotor 

Fe and Ruby on a field research at Calubcub II Mangrove Swamp, 

San Juan, Batangas.*  Photo by the author circa 1987

They wonder and ponder

over the lifeless Sonneratia

as the land partly dies

and the sea weeps,

while a sapling sways,

its shadow a mosaic

of green and blue

dancing over the waves,

in the music of the breeze.

The wonders of Nature

never cease. ~

- AV Rotor, Light in the Woods 1995, Megabooks

* The author is professor at the Graduate School, University f Santo Tomas.