Happy Cephalopod Awareness Days! For more about the history, see this post on the Cephalopodiatrist. Today is Octopus Day. For today I wrote a teensy poem and I’ll share this photo of a North Pacific Giant Octopus I saw at the Seattle Aquarium. I don’t know if it’s the geometry of the enclosure or if that octopus was just in a particularly feisty mood, but it was by far the most active octopus I’ve ever seen in captivity.
And now, my Octopoem
The tips of the tentacle could define
the vertices of a cube
a fleeting octagon
an umbrella that furls and unfurls,
furls and unfurls.
These teardrops are salt but not sorrow.
I can’t say who this flesh belongs to.
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Love the photo.
I’m sorry I missed your Ceph-Day posts at the time! I’ve belatedly added links to the commemorative page:
http://cephalopodiatrist.com/blog/cephalopod-days-2010.html