Cobalt Skink went to Tybee Island. She has a wonderful, lyrical, comic, meditation-inducing drawing of a Talking Fish she did while there. Plus some musings on the trip, Sand Idles, with their vivid centerpiece a woman in a sari building a Hindu temple sand castle on the beach. Eventually, she walks into the waves, the waters of Tybee having become the universal Ganges. Unpretentious and beautifully poetic. Instead of flooding one with superfluous words she leaves just the right spaces where the unsuspecting tourist wakes to find contemplation long previously settled and waiting.
TALKING FISH
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2 responses to “TALKING FISH”
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Thanks so much for this! That makes me feel good, that you understood. You are a very generous person, very supportive.
I’ve got something else I want to write about from that trip but as time is a precious commodity it may be a few more days before I get to it.
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Well, the musings were beautiful. I was startled at how vivid the Hindu woman was as she entered the waves. Well, startled isn’t the right way to put it. I was reading along and then she was suddenly there and I was impressed with the dexterity and sincerity that conjured her so fully. Parts of the story keep burbling up into consciousness all day.
Am looking forward to what else you have to write on the trip.
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