Living at Sea Otter Slough

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. - Joseph Campbell

"Living at Sea Otter Slough"

He stood silently by the shore wondering

what the next high tide would be bringing

to give him from its treasure. Swinging

his arms, he came back to his beach house.

She stood looking down the dock wondering

if the wind was the cause of bell ringing

on a sailboat out in the bay. Upbringing

reminded her: come back to her beach house.

The boy stood by the small pond wondering

how the pebble made its circles. Singing,

he walked onto the beach with sand stinging

his toes. He came back to their beach house.

Slough owner, Otter is about plundering

filled clamshells from the depths upwelling.

Safe at home in the sea, his is the dwelling

in the best place. For otters, no beach house.

Copyright by Carol Gee, Jaunary 18, 2006

Tags: poetry reflections imagery seashore

My "topical post" today at South by Southwest is about President Bush's transformation in the fall of 2001.