4.4 – Dirt or Not Dirt but Never Nothing
June 26, 2009
As the named and unnamed stars
and the space between
whirl on unseen
in the night’s caesura
with no need of our knowing,
so too we figure in the
beetle’s cosmology as
the other,
the opposite of
the underside of things,
beyond their dark astronomy
of soil, seed and root
fixed in its firmament of stone,
lit by the jagged lightning
of unfleshed bone
and the occasional supernova
of our stumbling,
a noise that is not night,
the mythical light matter
believed but unobserved,
the unknown of
the inconceivable up.
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July 1st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
2nd time I’ve spotted you using a “beetle” metaphor. Must be something to that… hmm.
Last bit reminded me of Flatland. Read it?
July 1st, 2009 at 2:06 pm
A long time ago… like in my teens. Definitely stuck with me. But what you are seeing is, I think, merely my meager store if imagery starting to show itself!
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I think it’s great to have a common stock of imagery, especially when effective. Do it one more time and I will proudly dub you the beetle poet.