This was a class assignment that took about 2 days to complete... We made the paper in class from scratch and were then instructed to create an example of design with it once it dried. Well, here it is.
As you can see, I have drawn an octopus. I don't know why, but I've been on an octopus kick lately and this project fell prey to it. Around the octopus I have written a poem entitled "the Octopus" by James Merril. It's a descriptive piece, but it only really alludes to an octopus once. I really just chose it for the name.
Overall I am pleased with this piece, but i was slightly afraid of messing it up and ruining my only sheet of paper so i restrained myself a little bit. I hope you all like it.
THE OCTOPUS
There are many monsters that a glassen surface
Restrains. And none more sinister
Than vision asleep in the eye’s tight translucence.
Rarely it seeks now to unloose
Its diamonds. Having divined how drab a prison
The purest mortal tissue is,
Rarely it wakes. Unless, coaxed out by lusters
Extraordinary, like the octopus...
(that is where I cut it off)
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