Blue Starfish

Blue Starfish

Dr Abe V Rotor

Blue Starfish*, Bagac, Bataan. Photo by AV Rotor, circa 1990

From blue to blue

On the chariot of Apollo,

You exchanged your glow

With the sea below.

You were once a beam,

In the night a dream

Shining on a stream,

To make the stones gleam.

Your fame is as much

As the tiniest light to touch;

You broke away from your batch,

To be his precious catch. ~

- AV Rotor, Light in the Woods, 1995 Megabooks

*Linckia laevigata is a species of sea star 

in the shallow waters of tropical Indo-Pacific.