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Funereal Duskywing (Erynnis funeralis): photo by kretyen, 2008
Then knelt with the sphere of crystal
That she should touch with her hands,
...........................Coe
The four altars at the four coigns of that place,
But in the great love, bewildered
.........farfalla in tempesta
under rain in the dark:
............................ many wings fragile
Nymphalidae, basilarch, and lycaena,
Ausonides, euchloe, and erynnis
And from far
.................il tremolar della marina
chh. . ...... chh
...... the pebbles turn with the wave
chh .........ch'u
.................... "fui chiamat'
..............................
Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel
..............................
For a flash,
...............for an hour.
Then agony,
.................then an hour,
..............................
Hilary stumbles, but the Divine Mind is abundant
......................unceasin
......................improvis
Omniformis
.................unstill
Banded Orange Heliconian (Dryadula phaetusa, Nymphalidae), underside: photo by Richard Bartz, 2008
Scarce Copper (Lycaena virgaureae): photo by Algirdas, 2006
Large Marble (Euchloe ausonides): photo by Joyce Gross, n.d.
Viceroy Butterfly (Limenitis archippus) (basilarch, or Monarch Mimic): photo by Piccolo Namek, 2005
8 comments:
such a good one.
lovely with the pictures.
Yes, we could go on and on reading/hearing this. . . .
Thank you gamefaced.
The pictures show the butterfly species (farfalla=butterfly) which Pound lists, in the bewilderment of great love, under rain in the dark (tempesta), on the grounds of St Elizabeths Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Washington, D.C.
There is a bit of Dante in here also, another radiance amid the darkness.
The guest who has blest the place is probably Sherri Martinelli, a poet and painter who came down from NYC to visit him.
The poem seems perhaps to express the confusion and vulnerability of a poet who would always be shy of speaking his emotions directly in "public".
Cf. Purgatorio X, on the angelic butterfly (angelica farfalla) that flies into judgment without defenses.
...and thank you Stephen, your words have just slipt in as I was pecking mine...
TC,
just so you know we're quietly spreading the word from detroit; that is, as fellow hopwood winner bruce shlain exclaims: "best blog anywhere."
just so you know
Splendid choice, Tom.
doowman, billy, many thanks, across the worlds.
This is wonderful. And I second doowman; yours is the best blog, bar none.
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