it took a second for me to figure this out. i asked my friends but no one had any suggestions beyond a shark. i mulled it over - discarding it immediately. maybe a platypus at best or i'll go as far as piranha. of course it doesn't have to be just an animal right? maybe i'd be the womb of turtle goddesses. or sparkling reef walkers. the lips of mango kisses under a pearly moon? a basket woven of the sea. shark?
really? a shark? ok i realize i have a cultural connection to them (i'm from the shark clan which means i'm a descendent of people who spoke with sharks) and i do love the sea and eating fish and my first pet was a shark and according to the fem sharks i'm an honorary shark haha but a shark seems just way too
ferocious and
dangerous
to be me.
then again.
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I like your idea of the shark metaphor---of embracing it (or having it embrace you) and also not accepting it. I want to hear more about you and the shark, though. And I want to hear about it in the form of a prose poem. (not that you have to do what I want, of course).
ReplyDeleteThis is very clever. It's funny that your friends picture you as a 'shark'...that wouldn't be my first thought! I like all your thoughts, though, about what you could be. Maybe you're just all of them =).
ReplyDeleteLove how you wrote down the progression of your thoughts about the topic. "Womb of a turtle goddess" sounds really good too. Love the descent of your last paragraph to the "... then again." Eeeeeeggggselent.
ReplyDelete-Anna <3
as an honorary femme shark i agree. but truly you're more like a porpoise
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haha I love how you disregard the shark then come full circle to explain all the reasons why you are a shark. Whats wrong with being dangerous and ferocious...I don't mean physically. Think about it. I think through your work you can be seen as those too. Through your ambition and what not. Not meaning it in a bad way. I just feel those are some POWERFUL words right there to be described as.
ReplyDeletelove the blog
I think I understand your reluctance to be a shark because they symbolize something really aggressive and kind of scary to others which makes the animal not very accessible but actually let me propose this:
ReplyDeleteSome sharks (and I forget which, maybe all of them) can't stop swimming, because they'll die. They swim even in their sleep because they need to keep water flowing over their gills to breath, to absorb oxygen. Think about that, what do you always need to do to stay alive?
Also, sharks are one of my favorite animals. : )
- lupe