tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6456414804881287673..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: JaguarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22356519479218549702012-07-20T08:20:18.853-07:002012-07-20T08:20:18.853-07:00Jaguar steps on the river rock so gently, so nimbl...Jaguar steps on the river rock so gently, so nimbly, given its enormous size; it is so agile. The sound of pad on rock or forest floor, in the crepuscular kingdom, is all but unheard.<br /><br />It swims swiftly and silently in the river.<br /><br />In the Americas Jaguar is the only cat that roars.<br /><br />The strength of Jaguar bespeaks the strength of a kingdom soon to be overrun completely, destroyed to make way for The Dark Knight, viewed on Imax.<br /><br />The night is darkest just before dawn and that is the time of the Jaguar, that and twilight, which is almost upon us now.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61988606942845577692012-07-19T11:48:17.395-07:002012-07-19T11:48:17.395-07:00A sun at night
in fur wild pelt
moves to the tree
...A sun at night<br />in fur wild pelt<br />moves to the tree<br />to scratch<br />stretch<br />exercise<br />in its cool<br />kingdom of airSusan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79451311994067460772012-07-19T10:47:37.807-07:002012-07-19T10:47:37.807-07:00"With beauty, riverine." very cat-like f..."With beauty, riverine." very cat-like fragment in the line, almost like stepping on a river rock, smooth sounding, cool.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-711736748595160372012-07-19T10:11:08.492-07:002012-07-19T10:11:08.492-07:00The Jaguar (Panthera onca) is the only Panthera sp...The Jaguar (Panthera onca) is the only Panthera species found in the Americas. And it is found nowhere else. The Jaguar and its smaller relative the Spotted Leopard share a common Asian ancestry. The opportunistic Jaguar crept across the land bridge at the Bering Straits two million years ago. It is an apex predator, solitary, main chance, no kidding around. It has jaws of immense power, allowing it to kill in a direct, one bite act by crushing the skull of its prey. This is a feat unique among the big cats. The bite instantly pierces the temporal bones between the ears. Lights out. (None of the mess that comes with the lion's neck bite.) When attacking large reptiles, Jaguar eschews the head and leaps on to the back of the prey, severing the cervical vertebra with that tremendous bite. The victim never knows what hit it, like Jayne Mansfield when she drove into the semi in the Bayou fog. The Jaguar is smaller than the lion but has twice the lion's strength. Panthera onca is a keystone species that stabilizes ecosystems and regulates populations of the animals it hunts. It is an endangered creature, having been eliminated from the US thanks in no small part to the Bush Wall. The Jaguar Corridor from Mexico down into South America passes through areas of increasing human population. Farmers and ranchers along this route are no friends of the Jaguar. Its future as a species hangs in the balance. And we know which way these things eventually go, usually sooner rather than later.<br /><br />In pre-Columbian religion and myth Jaguar is a sacred animal. In those cultures a sacred being often assumes an animal disguise. Something is hidden or veiled behind all that animal magic, all that preternatural power. Sleeping and dreaming and passing between worlds are involved. The Melanistic (Black) Jaguar has special significance. (Approximately six percent of all Jaguars are Melanistic.) The Maya considered Jaguar to be a companion in the spirit world, facilitating communication between night and day, the dead and the living. The abiding power of these symbolic associations is surprising. Three years ago I did a post on the Melanistic Jaguar that has had 23,000 hits. That's twice as many as any other post has had, and four times as many as the perennial favourite post on the Occupy Movement, which owed much of its popularity to a contagion of Google voyeurs seeking a view of a woman named Zuni Tikka in only her underpants (and only for a good cause).<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/night-sun-black-jaguar.html" rel="nofollow">Night Sun: Black Jaguar</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11969011849372047672012-07-19T07:35:58.002-07:002012-07-19T07:35:58.002-07:00"This is total: the genepool flows with power..."This is total: the genepool flows with power/with beauty, riverine."<br /><br />This is the power that us raggedy arsed bipeds can never get the handle on. We can only kill all the signs of it or stop the flow.<br /><br />The poem hurts, TC. There's almost too much gone.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41008298002856066072012-07-19T06:59:10.411-07:002012-07-19T06:59:10.411-07:00that is beautiful....thinking about the opposite o...that is beautiful....thinking about the opposite of "ausencia fosforescente"... love the felines...!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59381254913955229782012-07-19T06:51:16.851-07:002012-07-19T06:51:16.851-07:00Tom,
"a luminous absence"
"not n...Tom,<br /><br />"a luminous absence"<br /><br /> "not now ever going to be as they were"<br /><br />7.19<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />top of ridge, sparrow calling on branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> horizontal series of person<br /> falling, turning away<br /><br /> across floor, pictures only<br /> done, color of shadow<br /><br />grey white clouds to the left of point,<br />shadowed green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com