[lit-ideas] Re: Saturday Poem (without the annoying, computer-generated interjections)
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:30:17 -0700
on 9/25/04 12:25 PM, David Ritchie at ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Tough Choice, From A Field Guide to Seashore Life
>
> You'll maybe remember a Guinness competition,
> the winner won a pub?
> Well I've been thinking,
> what I'd name it if I did.
> My own ideal pub is perched on a cliff,
> a good windy walk away from life,
> so I'd be thinking something wet or whistley,
> something with a sense of sea,
> something slithery even,
> like whisky
> or a whelk.
> How well real tidal dwellers' names sound.
> Open a field guide and try the sculpins :
> grunt, rosylip, tidepool, saddleback, mosshead and fluffy,
> a full Beatrix Potter litter of fish
> waiting for their own heart-warming tale.
> Deeper into the guide, I imagine the following,
> swinging on a sign behind the wind:
> The Rough-Mantled Doris
> The Boring Sponge
> The Fingered Limpit
> The Tinted Wentletrap
> I consider,
> The Dusky Tegula
> The Gumboot Chiton
> The Emarginate Dogwinkle
> The Black Prickleback
> I flirt with,
> The Nail Brush
> The Bent-Nosed Macoma
> The Hairy Mopalia
> The Opalescent Nudibranch
> Then I try,
> The Tucked Lirularia
> The Blenny Eel
> The Sea Pork
> Vosnesenty's Isopod
> Finally it comes down to,
> "Nuttall's Cockles" or "The Dire Welk."
> Would anyone, I wonder, walk a way to a welk?
> Even if I made mussels?
>
>
> David Ritchie
> Portland, Oregon
>
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