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A is for algae, red, green, blue cells, soaking up sun, sliming teeth B is for bacterial mat, clumping underneath, earliest born, never asleep C is for coral reef, the place we all find cover or the sand parrotfish chew and release D is for diatom, all seeded calcium, all float free, all denizens barely seen E is for eelgrass, nursery meadows of the anchovy, and other browsers of green F is for fan worm, filter feeder like a flower, 8000 species on which fish feed G is for giant kelp, floating on bladders of air they’re forests of cold waters clean H is for helmet, the royalty of snails who protect our feet, queen, emperor, king I is for isopod, the chameleon crustacean, they color match what they eat J is for jellyball, or cannonball jellyfish, not upside down or moon, avoid their heat K is for keyhole limpet, favorite food of ochre stars, will erect its own wall L is for laver, the sea lettuce of nori, it swirls red skirt as ocean falls M is for mermaid’s purse, the sack of the skate whose yolk keeps them alive N is for nerite, the prisoner striped snail of the rocky zone as numerous as a hive O is for oyster drills, the snails that slurp oysters and use them to lay eggs P is for pleurobranch, a sea slug answer for oranges, with one active leg Q is for quahog, the bivalve seaman who can survive eating the mud R is for rove beetle, the one waiting to snatch the unwary beach hopper for good S is for saxitoxin, those red tides produced by mating that can paralyze humans T is for tubular sponge, they squish, bore and encrust as space lends U is for urchin, those spiny skinned balls, no eyes or noses but dig food in sand V is for Venus, Music Volutes dined or Vampire Squids skimming along land W is for whelk, not the musically inclined, but the slow moving snail in a shell X is for X and a half, the six rayed star, hungry for anything on the half shell Y is for yucca, blooming on the beach, they bloom nice and tolerate the sand Z is for Zostera marinara, the address of eel grass when they're feeling grand All of this green life is what crunches, stinks, dries and slips underfoot The rest that find the housing and dining compatible means someone’s on the look.
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