Portraits of Place » poems http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog Photographs by Shaun O'Boyle Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:50:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Musk ox is asleep http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2011/04/2050/ http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2011/04/2050/#comments Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:28:20 +0000 shaunoboyle http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/?p=2050 It was night, all night.
it was day, all day, morning,
Musk ox is asleep

Stanza from 13 Ways of Looking at a Musk Ox by Agustin Ramirez

]]> http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2011/04/2050/feed/ 0 Drift Wood http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2010/07/drift-wood/ http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2010/07/drift-wood/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:20:17 +0000 admin_ph http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2010/07/drift-wood/ 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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