Serrations in Sepia

...in the hurricane and the dance

in the liberty of the trance

in this serration

and that imagination

all mean less than the remembrance of fire.

-from I Will Find You by Remi Raji

Finely Serrated Leaves

and Doubly Serrated Leaves

and Broadly Serrated Leaves

With a Long-Legged Fly

Broadly Serrated Virginia Creeper

From their edges, there stream into the

smooth channel sharp blue serrations

or ripples of various lengths...

- Journal entry by Henry David Thoreau, July 24, 1853

while at Fair Haven near Walden Pond

Seen now through rain

the mountains fade,

the city fades

the serrations

of the skyline

delicately

dissolve like ink

on gray paper.

- from Mountains in the Rain

by Richard Risenberg

the salty sailor, the deck he swabbed,

until at last he had finished the job,

he went for a moonlit swim toward the sandy beach,

he swam stroke o'r stroke but the beach he would not reach,

for along came a large, rather ravenous shark,

whose habits brought it to the shallows well after dark,

with swift -toothed serration and no hesitation,

the shark gave the sailor complete evisceration,

leaving him only with a brief warm sensation.

End of story. No more narration.

- from The Playground of my Dreams

by jeff campbell

(blurred image of shark tooth for a sense of movement)

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