Sherry Chandler » The Humpback
The Humpback
Hanging lopsided and heavy, high above the eastern horizon, ungainly and
Unreflective as a lump of coal in the daylight sky, the mid-March gibbous
Moon waxes toward the Worm or the Crow, the Chaste or the Sap. Eternal
Pale-faced Puritan, she marches toward the Lenten, leading a parade of
Bonnets, baskets, bunnies, plastic eggs, sermons, and the promise that once
Again we will have rebirth, long light, and clouds of daffodils to blind the sun.
Cratered and inconstant, ghostly as a governess, out of her element, out-of-
Kilter, our cold, kinetic handmaiden swells and grows pregnant with spring.
This moon-phase animation was created by Tomruen and can be found at the lunar phase entry of Wikipedia.
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3 Comments
1. Tommy replies at 20th March 2008, 8:18 am :
Love the alliteration in the lines there, towards the end.
It was nice and warm Tuesday, it rained all day Wednesday, and now my breath is once more misting in the early morning on Thursday. So I hope we get long days pretty darn soon.
That moon animation is neat. I think I’ll link to it on my blugh.
On an only-tangentially-related note, I heard an advertisement for a local church’s Easter celebrations that listed “Resurrection Eggs” among the other treats. So … prove it. Show me your stigmata!
2. thepoetryman replies at 20th March 2008, 2:03 pm :
Beautiful, my friend…
3. sherry replies at 20th March 2008, 2:05 pm :
Thanks, Tom & the Poetryman. I had fun doing that. It’s wordy because I was trying to do it in 100 words. I failed unless I let myself count the title, so I let myself count the title.
Tommy — Tomruen allows free use of his moon animation so go ahead on and use it — with a nice credit line of course.
Tom & the Poetryman sounds like a nice song lyric, don’t it? I know — it’s a Dylan song. No! Wilburys, but still Dylan. “Tweeter and the Monkeyman”
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