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Penguin on the Beach
Ruth Miller
- Ruth Miller was Born in 1919 in Uitenhage, South Africa.
- She grew up in the northern Transvaal and spent her adult life in Johannesburg. She worked as a school secretary and later an English teacher.
- She died of cancer in 1969.
- She wrote short stories and plays, but she is best known for her poems, which were frequently anthologised.
- She won the Ingrid Jonker Prize for her first volume of poems, "Floating Islands (1965)'. A second collection Selected Poems appeared in 1968 in the Phoenix Living Poets series.
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Stranger in his own element,
Sea-casualty, the castaway manikin
Waddles in his tailored coat-tails. Oil
Has spread a deep commercial stain
Over his downy shirt front. Sleazy, grey,
It clogs the sleekness. Far too well
He must recall the past, to be so cautious:
Watch him step into the waves. He shudders
Under the froth; slides, slips, on the wet sand,
Escaping to dryness, dearth, in a white cascade,
An involuntary shouldering off of gleam.
Hands push him back into the sea. He stands
In pained and silent expostulation.
Once he knew a sunlit, leaping smoothness,
But close with his head’s small knoll, and dark,
He retains the image: Oil on sea,
Green slicks, black lassoos of sludge
Sleeving the breakers in a stain-spread scarf.
He shudders now from the clean flinching wave,
Turns and plods back up the yellow sand,
Ineffably wary, triumphantly sad.
He is immensely wise: he trusts nobody. His senses
Are clogged with experience. He eats
Fish from the Saviour’s hands, and it tastes black.