Shell #1
Acrylic on paper, 21″ x 30″, 1982
What is left in a shell
beached by the tide?
Whispers of life gone by
tracks of a bivalve
Stone evidence of millions
in beds on the Sea Floor
Shell #2
Acrylic and charcoal on paper, 21″ x 30″, 1982
Hero’s codpiece on the beach
Gone with the sea birds
Food for epaulets
Salted with a sea
Of lovers’ tears
Shell #3
Acrylic on paper, 21″ x 30″, 1982
Fish stretch out at low tide
Leftovers of some rite
Birds pick the eyes
The tide eats the rest
Telling us