CREATION
MYTHOLOGY OF PLANET
Impression, Sunrise (Claude Monet)
The mythology of the Rowan tree
While writing in Putnam Valley
Vertumnus: Portrait of Rudolph II (Giuseppe Arcimboldo)
The mythology of the chinese phoenix
The dream of the three white cranes
Prometheus and the theft of fire
Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat)
SPRING 2009
FIREFLIES
Pleiades Cluster. NASA.
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1837-8. (excerpt Locksley Hall).
A firefly display in the twilight tonight. The park pathway I walked was thick with them. Bright yellow diamonds welded on gray faerie wings, brushing across my legs and feet. Thick, starry hordes on grasses, within shadows, along slopes.
And I recalled another twilight and another place, watching fireflies hover over an endless sea of meadow grass, and my children, still so young changelings, racing through the shadows, holding sparklers aloft, filling the gloaming with their cries and their light.
