Picked clean at the shoreline
leaning from the boat,
stretched long, almost tipping,
fingers grazing and fumbling
among shiny oval leaves.
Half for the pail,
half for me.
Sweet and sour, an unlikely crop
for a ponds edge.
Water and sun, we found the rock, a shelf,
stepped out and dove in.
Muck on the bottom squeezing between toes,
then we back float, feet held high,
that quicksand will swallow you whole.
We dove again, and surfaced with
a mussel clamped to a stick.
And another on the bottom
a hole in the shell,
big enough for a small finger,
soft, white, wet, slimy.
Touch it.
This small life lived here,
stuck,
near the shore of the pond.
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So what have I been doing for the past month? Futzing with my new iphone. These devices are distracting. I end up playing a session of angry birds rather than work on my latest book design – which is a reworking of the asylum photographs into a larger 13″x11″ book design.
But the newness of the iphone is wearing off finally (it’s my first smart phone), and I’m getting back to work on important projects. And occasionally playing with the phone. It has a decent 5 megapixel camera, and there are some good photo apps available. My current favorite is the ShakeItPhoto app, which does a good job of capturing the look of a polaroid.
I’ve also been enjoying summer, spending time swimming and hiking, canoeing.
I took a few days for a hiking trip to the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. It is one of my favorite places to go. I love hiking and the beauty of the mountains, and the adks are a great place to get both in large doses.
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