Another prompt from The First Line, whose resultant story they decided not to publish, has led me to another appearance in Catamaran, the Summer 2024 issue, with this even more fabulous than usual cover.
“Right at the Water’s Edge” drew inspiration not just from the intriguing first line “Mr. Morton needed a new pair of shoes,” but also from our almost-local Irish transplant poet, David Whyte, and his wonderful poem “Finisterre.” We here in Santa Cruz are indeed at land’s end, at water’s edge, and have to think about exactly what that means, and where we go from here, if go we do.
And about how and where Mr. Morton went, in his new shoes, from here.
“An altogether new way of walking, for an old stay-at-home like him. A crazy, chancy way of walking on, that made his new experimental heartbeat quicken, syncopate like ragtime, jazz, under his homely old tweed jacket, his no-iron button-cuff dress shirt.”
And about how a small boat happens to come into it, and a sea journey north . . .
Find Catamaran here, and Mr. Morton here.
image: Adam Jahiel
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