Shark House by Purple Mark

 

                     If a

                     Shark built a House

                     It would be built like this one

                     like a giant fin, parting the waters.

                     It would have house guests

       such as a Moray Eel and an Octopus

in a Garden of Corals, Kelp and Sea Anemones.

       It would have no need for doors or windows, the Weather

       didn’t penetrate often from this lone spire

                     from the sea above.

                     Yet it would have shafts of Sunlight to

                            Illumine the days and careful arrangements

                     of Lantern-fish and phosphorescent Sea-slugs

                     would give it a Glow to those dark water evenings.

       It might be safe to say the Shark House had a

reputation and there were some creatures which

wouldn’t stay because of the Shark Factor

       for a short time, much less an overnight or

              Weekend Getaway, but all Sharks are not Great Whites.

                     “JAWS” had made a bad impression on many

                     even among the Sea Life which hadn’t

              seen any of the movies in the horrific Franchise.

       However the Shark House idea had alreahdy been

thought up in England where there was the appearance

         of a Shark stuck in the roof of an Oxford Don’s House

                 as a prank piece of artwork as though the

                                   Shark in question had fallen

                                                 from the sky and

                                                        crashed into

                                                               the roof

                                                                          !

 
 

---Purple Mark, 03/10/2012

 
 
 
 

Prompts:                                                                         

1. “If a shark built a house it would be this pennant rock commanding the waves like a giant fin, partings the waters.” Tara Legresley from "Not Monet’s Haystack." Talking Raven Review: Winter 1999. (Lewis-Clark College, Lewiston Idaho) pg. 109. The Universe gifted me with the book provided from the top of a Broadway Post Office newspaper kiosk.