Minotaur.
Minotaur
Alluring, this minotaur, should you come upon her,
blue-outfitted, holy-grailed, complete with long black key
in one hand. It's not easy to be brave without at least some totems,
on sticks if need be, surrounding one on all sides
along with the extra dimensions required of string theory that
demand labyrinthine mathematical structures for sustenance.
I sensed her once in our woods, near the wolf tree, and suddenly
I was in full flight, down the path, beyond the meadow
and the two stately pines, veering around Rousseau's tiger that
appeared among the sunflowers, oddly reassuring, helter-skelter
up the mountain, hugging the ridge, then pressed against the large
cold flank of the moon. A very small woman, small as a ballet
dancer in a child's music box, gestured above my head, where was
floating the keyhole in a grey dank fog & receding fast. Oh my
anxiety, my future, being lost in the midst, my middle age,
flamingoes fleeing north, gods fleeing before them,
then the minotaur's shadow glimpsed once -- so cool, with the key
she'll never give over, her suave grey overcoat and enchantments,
how I desire to stroke her horns, her sensual pelt, pierce the fog
any way I can--Give it up, I, toss the key.
Jan Conn's sixth book of poetry is Jaguar Rain (Brick Books, 2006). She is a research scientist at the Wadsworth Center, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Department of Health, in Albany, New York For other uses, see Albany. Albany is the capital of the State of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany lies 136 miles (219 km) north of New York City, and slightly to the south of the juncture of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. , and currently lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,527 at the 2000 census. . Her website is <www.janconn.com>. "Minotaur" is one of a series of poems inspired by the great Spanish- Mexican surrealist painter Remedios Varo Remedios Varo (December 16 1908 - October 8 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter. She was born in Anglés Cataluña, Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963. . Conn is currently reading and highly recommends the following: George and Rue George and Rue (ISBN 978-0-00-225539-4 / ISBN 978-0-00-648569-8) is a novel by George Elliott Clarke, published in 2005 by HarperCollins Canada. The novel is based on the true story of George and Rufus Hamilton, two Black Canadian brothers who murdered a taxicab by George Elliott Clarke George Elliott Clarke (born February 12 1960) is a Canadian poet and playwright. Born in Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia, he has spent much of his career writing about the black communities of Nova Scotia and served for a time in the African-American Studies department at Duke , The Life and Times of Mexico by Earl Shorris, The Great Enigma by Tomas Transtromer and The Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn Kimiko Hahn (born in 1955 in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American poet (of partly Japanese descent) and instructor of poetry. Personal Hahn received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and an M.A. from Columbia University. . |
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