[lit-ideas] MY sunday
- From: dsavory@xxxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:05:44 -0700
I stood on a gull-specked pier
and felt the molluscs blush
as the tide pulled away their covers
and woke them up
glistening.
I tried to lead mussels
by the hand
off their pilings
but they wouldn't come
they wouldn't make the leap.
Maybe they were trapped
like sabre-tooths
enticed by their prey
now sessile in the tar
or maybe they knew
I meant to send them
down some faraway gullet
or maybe I didn't know them
from the deaf stones
they held fast in their arms.
David Savory
Jericho Beach
Vancouver
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