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Habit Tats

2 Philosophers' Stones
This meditation on the entanglement of rocks and life reflects research on what causes the punctures in coastal stones Pierre Jardin collects in Palos Verdes, California. The title imagines these markings as tattoos left by the habits of sea creatures.... This work (stone display and poem) was presented at the September 2015 meeting of California Aiseki Kai, and now resides in the private collection of Ann Horton.

Habit Tats

Beholed tell-tale clam caves and tiny tunnels
burrowed by piddocks and bristle worms,
creatures of habit who know the drill,
the boring labor of laborious boring,
obstinately honing a home in stone.

Once, these lithic glitches were little niches;
now, they’re empty shells of former selves,
vacancies we fill by fleshing out their stories.

 

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