Oxford Canal: Mallard Drake Preening : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Oxford Canal: Mallard Drake Preening / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | MALLARD1.Were we to simulate a mallard’s sight,In virtual reality, we would clutch our seatsFor fear of falling:Over the stone bridge,Between two willows,Tilting the flight-frameFor a water-landing,Webfoot extended,Green head calculatingSpeed and distance.Keel splicing water,Like landing at light speedOn a penny.2.Dressed for rape,The mallard drake.Ready to stealA rapid duck fuckFrom a femaleCourted by another,Or swarm upon herIn a cohort-quacking crowdUntil she sinks, or dies.3.Pope Gregory railed against him,The demon Asmodi,Who led the FrieslandersIn duckbilled orgies,Orgasmic in the darknessOf his wings.4.Scrying through the contoursOf the dried bone,The duck-hag scornedThe summer wish;Prognosticated rain.5.And rain came, and madeRunnels where the hatchlingsFirst paddled their clam-coldScaled feet, then followed motherDown the eddies of the river,Backstriped and piping,Four of them brown, one yellowWith a greenish tinge.Source material: Mallard drakes are amongst the most male-chauvinist of birds. They have an irrepressible sex drive, occasionally crowding a female duck so mercilessly that she is killed. This phenomenon was evidently observed by Chaucer, who describes the Mallard in the Parlement of Foules as a “stroyer of his own kind”. The mallard’s sexual infamy may also account for its association with the demon Asmodi, whose orgiastic worship provoked Pope Gregory IX to preach a crusade against the Frieslanders in the thirteenth century. Folklore has not been content to focus merely on the antics of the live mallard. The modern practice of making a wish over a dried and broken duck clavicle is a remnant of far more sophisticated methods of weather divination. See Francesca Greenoak, British Birds: Their Folklore, Names and Literatire, pp. 43-45. Other sequences in the song were inspired by observations made whilst walking on the banks of the canal in Oxford. |
| 撮影日 | 2009-02-28 13:34:30 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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| 撮影地 | Oxford, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | E8700 , NIKON |
| 露出 | 0.013 sec (1/80) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.3 |