In the torso of a great windstorm
Claire Kelly
Odds1 and Ends, 1939
The wind makes everything alive.
Without movement a subject is dead. Just look!
|| Emily Carr
Put your hand over a flashlight,
watch it glow faerie(仙境) pink. Picture ||
lit from inside || a belly2 torch,
the backdrop ||
knot of spruce(云杉) tree organs: liver, kidneys,
bundle of intestine3(肠), stomach ||
cool blue and green foliage4 hiding enzymes,
bacterium5, acids.
That exact texture6 of pulse,
quiver(颤抖), musculature connected
and contained, skyline and dirt grouted
together, a vista7 of
inner skin, the underside.
Airstream gale8 whipping
the pinprick stars into dashes,
molars into canines9(犬齿), evolution
of the Spartan10 firmaments. A breezy muse11,
that gust12 of inspiration.
Now look at the actors erect13 at centre stage, see:
skinny veins14 with plump TOPs,
or || zooming15 in || synapses16 of birch foregrounded.
Holy trifecta(三连胜式), three ideas
announcing skyward:
home, joy, hunger.