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Three Poems From Thailand
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THE ARTS
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2 / 1987 |
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Translated by Michael Waters
Andrew Shaughnessy is deputy director of Clan Donald Centre,
Isle of Skye, Scotland. |
Passion Conch
No sun today, the rainy
season barely begun, so
we sleep late before
Performing the instinctive,
casual, tourists' ritual:
combing the beach
in search of the unusual
among the wrack and weedy
debris. Ahead of me,
you scan the tide-
line for what remains,
the left-behind, the false
and glittering sapphires
the salt's slow churning
has tossed ashore -
and pull up a shell
still filled with muscle,
purple with black
stitching, the heart's
colors, pulsing:
Passion
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