WORK FOR THE DAY

Your assignment: design a container for the sea. It must embrace each whale and fleck of plankton. Of course, you will think of your favorite tropical fish, the rich coral canyons, the deep kelp forests, the sea otters and singing dolphins, but you must must include the rest: great white sharks and red tides, the deadly stinging jellyfish. Your container must hold every calm and billow, every island and basin and estuary and brackish backwater. Leave nothing out. The tsunami must be there, and the pale blue impossible calms after the storms have passed.