EBIn case you didn’t know, it’s Shark Week, the discovery channel’s week-long celebration of everyone’s favorite maritime predator. Everyone loves Shark Week—including Poets.org. They’ve collected 35 Poems About Sharks to help you celebrate Shark Week in a more literary way. My favorite is Joel Brouwer’s Coffee and Oranges, which begins:
The music on TV turned gloomy. Sharks,
she said, and sure enough. A blunt snout,
jumbled cemetery of teeth, and quick black
depthless eye thrashed the screen. Coffee
and oranges made the morning acidic.
