Summer Solstice 2013 - a reading (on YouTube)
As dawn brightens, distant shadows of mountains detach from
the horizon and float across the sky. Beyond her dreamy gaze, summer wanders a
world of white terrained by gray, encased like a fantasy in snow globe acrylic
blue. Islands of clouds float across a sea of land, their ghostly ripples
forming dunes upon an airy shore.
A cloud of flat-winged marauders hovers and darts above a
depression, slicing back and forth through sunlight in pursuit of languid prey.
Rival miniatures perform aerial acrobatics, loops and figure eights, defending
their airspace above a forest of yellow flowers. Below, a lone scout explores
the treacherous, broken landscape of roots and wood chips seeking discarded
offerings for his queen. From a tangle of support symmetry emerges between,
constructed strand by strand by the perfect predator to serve as both parlor
and pantry.
The morning sees a golden-green aura emerge around the grass
as fairy-winged insects flutter through their forenoon errands between the
blades. Bees flit from flower to flower, flirting with each, lingering near the
most beautiful just long enough to bestow a nectared kiss. Summer soldiers
forage what they are not given to overwinter in their fastness, their
conversations as brief and intense as showers, with all traces of them
evaporating beneath the returning sun.
© 2013 Edward P. Morgan III
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ReplyDeleteNotes and asides:
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Another compilation from the daily lines inspired by watching dragonflies, carpenter ants, spiders, bees and other insects in the backyard, along the ditch and in the park. Along with staring out at dawn from office window, up into the sky from the grass and down onto clouds from various plane windows while traveling. Enjoy the bright summer sky, the clouds and the busy comings and goings to the colorful flowers while they last.
Picture Notes:
ReplyDeleteI drew this one from a picture I took out in the park last year. Dragonflies are notoriously hard to capture. But, I've heard, they are also territorial, so if you wait long enough, they will come back to the spot you scared them from. This guy did that for me, and he really was blue. I sketched this back in May, but it fit for this Solstice message. Enjoy.