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At the time I made this photograph I was creating my own glass negatives, by painting 4x5 sheets of glass with silver gelatin and exposing then in a 4x5 view camera. ---
Winter Old Orchard Beach A long Time Ago - Silver Gelatin Photography by Bob Orsillo --------------- Poem ... Any fool can get into an ocean
BY JACK SPICER
Any fool can get into an ocean
But it takes a Goddess
To get out of one.
Whats true of oceans is true, of course,
Of labyrinths and poems. When you start swimming
Through riptide of rhythms and the metaphors seaweed
You need to be a good swimmer or a born Goddess
To get back out of them
Look at the sea otters bobbing wildly
Out in the middle of the poem
They look so eager and peaceful playing out there where the
water hardly moves
You might get out through all the waves and rocks
Into the middle of the poem to touch them
But when youve tried the blessed water long
Enough to want to start backward
Thats when the fun starts
Unless youre a poet or an otter or something supernatural
Youll drown, dear. Youll drown
Any Greek can get you into a labyrinth
But it takes a hero to get out of one
Whats true of labyrinths is true of course
Of love and memory. When you start remembering.
