All-Hail to the Fisher-King

Wizard-king:
stoneware; blue glaze.

Clay For The Fisher-King

Kiltered, Yet Balanced:  My newest bowl, fresh from the kiln.

(When I am taking such shots, strolling folks often pause to check out what I am doing.  Occasionally, they'll  walk down the bank and just watch; less often, they'll ask questions.  Oh, and if they have any children with them, the children have led them over.  That man's playing in the creek!  I tell everyone who asks that I'm working on an "art project".  Most often in that case, I get smiles, but also a few furrowed brows.  I've had some good conversations, however brief, arise in both cases.  If someone is really interested, I hand over a card for this blogsite.  Tourists from foreign lands have taken photos of me taking my photos.   Crazy American?)

Archilochos: Grains of Salt

Three Pieces from Archilochos, the ancient Greek poet, translated by Guy Davenport:

With ships so trim and narrow,

Ropes fast and sails full,

I ask of the gods that

Our comrades have a wind too,

That they meet neither tall wave

Nor reef.

                 All fortune be with them.

Let us hide the sea-king's gifts,

The wrecked dead Poseidon brings.

Their lives

Held in the arms

Of the waves.

--Archilochos

from Guy Davenport's 7 Greeks,

A New Directions Book: New York, 1995.

(I've posted shots of this sculpture in the past here.)