BENEATH A POETHEME
"The logics that create the surface of the story
are never the story." -Maggie Macary
I.
A root formation
you
Old Moon, and I
beneath you
Being of the one dream
a creature of creation, too
II
Old Moon
a hidden thrust in core and crust
Beneath you
freezing and thawing
Has begun
in trees to run
III.
Old Moon
dreaming in that language,
Piñon
pine
Beneath you,
something new
IV.
a hidden thrust in core and crust
Beneath you
freezing and thawing
Has begun
in trees to run
III.
Old Moon
dreaming in that language,
Piñon
pine
Beneath you,
something new
IV.
Sore
piñon pine
Sings
crow
Your deep stone rhythm
pocks my breast
Repeats
beneath my rest Old Moon
©2016 Root Formation stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
notes
1. The introduction to "March Moon" ( to read the full essay see http://www.mythopoetry.com/mythopoetics/essay_moon_mar.html )
2. "The logics that create the surface of the story are never the story." -Maggie Macary, "Cultural Mythology, A Methodology
piñon pine
Sings
crow
Your deep stone rhythm
pocks my breast
Repeats
beneath my rest Old Moon
©2016 Root Formation stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
notes
1. The introduction to "March Moon" ( to read the full essay see http://www.mythopoetry.com/mythopoetics/essay_moon_mar.html )
For The Love of a Woman
by stephanie pope published 03/13/09
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| These essays around the full moon are inspired by a thought whose soul wonders what it is to reflect the mind of winter. Seeing the moon one gentle evening, this thinking began to imagine the moon had seen a good portion of the ghost world of what came and went many times over throughout countless eons long past. Thereupon perhaps something might remain in these ‘other world’ remains winter minds still and this might be of value and import to us now in our own life resolve. Whereupon our world, too, in the way it remains predisposed to reflect such mythic thoughts always and once more and imaginally so, we might then begin again to share the soul of this world with each other, being of the one dream and begun from within creative life’s image and likeness creatures of creation too. So this now is the imaginal route retraced that brings to me in contemplation likenesses for the ‘mind of winter’ and bears these through the first to this last of the winter-moon essays for this series. |
2. "The logics that create the surface of the story are never the story." -Maggie Macary, "Cultural Mythology, A Methodology
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