The Law of the Unforeseen by Edward Harkness

Author:Edward Harkness
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press

In telling her story, the girl—now 93,

feet slippered, knees quilt-covered

where she sits on the cat-clawed sofa—

pauses, her voice catching. On the wall

behind are her sumi-e paintings: a catfish,

a curled cat, a chrysanthemum. Two minutes

pass before she can go on. That fall,

she says, we came home at last to Bremerton.

SHELL

Waves and rocks have nicked the outer edge.

Ugly shell. No one, not even me, would

bend on this wind-slapped shore to pry it out

of sand. Uses: soap dish, small ashtray, cup,

scoop, spoon, scraper, knife. Or a boat to the moon

for a Haida girl, born, I’ll guess, near Juneau,

circa 1830. I picture her digging clams

on the beaches of Douglas Island

where she lived with her Wolf Clan.

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