10,000 Legs Under the Sea

                                                                      

                             10,000 Legs Under the Sea

I can see you
can you see me?

Cement
          stuck
                 sticky
                         swig
                                salt
                                     Sirens

                      
                                                           Call


Sand Buckets Full
Sand Buckets Empty
                            
                                             So I can remember who's creating this Story



Neon Beach Umbrellas

                  A spackled seahorse shoreline

Legs thrash
Toes turn


Appendages Sssing with every Ssstroke

 
                                                  So We can remember how to Swim

                                                           

My Mothers Jewelry Box

Big
        Bold
                  Bountiful

                                    Trinkets
                          Treasures
                 Troves

Dangle
            Glisten
                       Shine

Compartments open close
                              top
                               bottom
                           
                                   Left & Right

Mirrors Reflect
                         
                         Sacred Drawers

                                                    With Golden Locks

                                                                        across its borders
                                                                 to secure
                                                         Remains
                                                    Unseen

                                                                                         

                               

Pictures in Motion make for Beautiful Metaphors

 

In popular culture

The earthquake was the basis of the 1936 MGM film San Francisco, which starred Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy, who received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for this film. In 1938, a Warner Brothers movie entitled The Sisters, starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn, featured a sequence portraying the earthquake, partly using footage from the 1927 Warners film Old San Francisco.

In the 1991 Tony Kushner play Angels in America, the Angel tells the main character that the San Francisco earthquake occurred on the day that God left heaven. Heaven itself is portrayed as San Fransisco in the wake of the earthquake's devastation.

An Epic Warner Brothers film entitled 1906 and directed by Brad Bird is currently in production. Based on the earthquake, it is an adaptation of the best-selling James Dalessandro novel of the same name.^[63]

The National Film Registry added a documentary of the footage of the earthquake, entitled San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 to its list of American films for preservation. The film was selected along with 24 other films in 2005, and is currently one of 500 films recognized by the Registry.^[64]

Rita Hayworth sang "Put the Blame on Mame" in Gilda (1946). The second verse starts with the line: "When they had the quake back in nineteen-six/They said Mother Nature was up to her old tricks" and "When she did the shimmy-shake/That brought on the Frisco quake". In keeping with the film character Gilda being "the ultimate femme fatale", the song sung by her in two scenes facetiously credits the amorous activities of a woman named "Mame" (the name evidently chosen to rhyme with "blame") as the true cause of three well-known cataclysmic events in American history – The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Great Blizzard of 1888 in New York City, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The 1906 earthquake is used as a backdrop in the climatic chapters of the novel "The Chase" by author Clive Cussler.

Angels In America