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Nola lent me Jim Carroll's book of poetry Living at the Movies because of some of the ocean imagery, and I've been drawing some lines from it, and from my imagination.

The current lead is: Secret Poets of the Crushed Shadows

The first half was sprung off one of Carroll's poem titles and crushed shadows are a loss of definition in the shadows of an underexposed photograph or film.

Some other brainstorming thoughts are:

The Orchid People

Firefly People

anxious with the thoughts of bare oceans

Age of Oceans

incandescent exposure

indecent

lovely confusion

lovely confusion on a summer night

Firefly Lanterns

The Sheerlings

To the secret poets of (the dusk)

Secret poets of the dusk

(To the) secret poets of the crushed shadows

Dusk-time Poets

The age of underexposure

The Firefly Poets: Secret people of the dusk

The Firefly People: Secret poets of the dusk

Sheerlings of the Dusk

Shearlings of the Dusk

Text, some original, most Carroll quotes:

…. on the beach in a snowless winter…

… anxious with the thoughts of bare oceans

that move in the thighs of an eventual sunlight

like bathers moving closer to their season

when again gulls perch in their lovely confusion

"alone," as now, the sand sifting through

your fingers like another's darkness. it's true,

you are always too near and I am everything…

you sit to have waves rush to your open hands

and you're surprised as cities grow there

have you seen the sculptor that makes reefs out of concrete statues? who casts likenesses out of concrete? and on their (concrete) faces grow corals of every color?

do you know?

sitting on the embankment of your mind, watching the fireflies converge, i opened my heart to you on a summer night

by the bioluminescent embankment the fireflies synchronize and i open

The lines about the reefs were inspired by the artwork of Jason desCaires Taylor. He creates concrete sculptures, which he sinks in the ocean to create reefs, and all manner of sea creatures attach themselves. Pretty amazing. Here are two of my favorite images: