Reprise: The Water-Fox, Sleeping

2011:
Strawberry Creek, Berkeley, CA

Brother-of-Pearl: A Sequence

Aquaman:
sculpture mix; green house-paint;
leather cord; and abalone shell.

Mendocino: 7/23/18

Play-Date: Fish and Octo

Old clay pieces out in the world.
My version of building sand-castles, I guess.

Dredgery

Tomales Spit

Pelican Point.

Clay Play: Blue and Brown

Missing clay-time.
Samples from 2013: Strawberry Creek play.

The Forest

I call this beauty.

Kelp forest beauty.

Kelp Love

Timber Cove Free Diving

July 30, 2016

Reading Properly: All In Play and At Play

Ideally, reading properly
is much like living properly:

moment by moment,
responsively;
attuned to everything
but also with due consideration for weight and strength and flow patterns;
aware of the past without being chained by it;
aware of the future without being dismayed by it;
and with heart and mind and soul
all in play and at play.

The Winding and Unwinding

THE WINDING AND UNWINDING

The shape of your thought
Entices me
Quite as much as
The thought of your shape.

Clay-minded,
Bloody-brained,
Fickle as a stick in water:
I swim towards you.

I reach for you
Again and again and again
In thought, in force,
Not withholding aught
Save what wyrd demands
From each of us.

The winding and unwinding
Of time and tide,
Again releasing,
Again embracing,
Tasting and chasing,
Like river-otters sliding
Down the sloped bank.

The winding and unwinding
Of time and tide:
The rounded lift and heft,
The nipple’s assertion,
The twinned-blood rising
Like the swift pull
Of the river’s pulse
And penetration --
Flowing,
Falling,
Following –-

That shared current
Streaming just past the shore,
Stranding us between
Just enough
And quite enough.
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Coda:
Laughing lips sip --
Swallow -- another draft.
Glasses, glances,
Clash and chime,
Toasting the new year.

Harken to the hearty
Admonition:
Draft, not drift.

--Matthew Duckworth

Zoom II: Ray, Feeding

Sea Turtles!

Can you hear the funky music?

Glide.  

Flaps down; turtle rising.

Grace.

A favorite shot.