Toronto April 2018

Items from our trip to Toronto last week.

A trip to visit family and friends and the new Ripley's Aquarium Of Canada, Toronto

"sun, 

split like spun 

glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness

into the crevices— 

in and out, illuminating 

the 

turquoise sea 

of bodies. The water drives a wedge 

of iron through the iron edge 

of the cliff; whereupon the stars,"

from The Fish

by Marianne Moore

"Ancient as ocean’s shifting hills, who in sea-toils

Travelling, who furrowing the salt acres

Heavily, his wake hoary behind him,

Shoulders spouting, the fist of his forehead

Over wastes gray-green crashing, among horses unbroken

From bellowing fields, past bone-wreck of vessels,

Tide-ruin, wash of lost bodies bobbing

No longer sought for, and islands of ice gleaming

Who ravening the rank flood, wave-marshalling,

Overmastering the dark sea-marches, finds home

And harvest."

from Leviathan

by W.S. Merwin