Sunday, November 30, 2008

The Shark Nun


Click here to see random blog I found this collage on

in loving memory of dad on his birthday 11/30/08

The way we all swam,
as if portraits of priests
outlined our urns creating
heat.

The way things started
attacking dream journals. . .
(you now building a dam)
you lost as students
pass through Time Magazine
as if it was only a corner
in your breath.
-the only dip in flying
was a great white)

I remember the pages of
wood you "founded," much larger
than whales, much in the
consistency of tea.

Local news broke out that
you were in France-
that you were surveying
the Oregon coast through
the eyes of 300 marine species.

If he tells you the Shark
people are building ladders,
believe him.

3 comments:

Maurice Burford said...

so excellent!

jess rowan said...

i love this.

Ginger Mayerson www.hackenblog.com said...

Actually that collage by K. Mas-Gallegos is called "The Nun Blesses the Meat With Long Life" and it's from the LA Collage website, here:

http://lacollage.blogspot.com/2007/07/nun-blesses-meat-with-long-life.html

Glad you like the work. There's a whole book of it, too.