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| The Whirlpool Galaxy (Spiral Galaxy M51, NGC 5194) is a classic spiral galaxy located in the Canes Venatici constellation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
I looked at space pictures the other day and saw a picture of a galaxy. I've seen similar pictures many times but yesterday I researched the praying mantis for my book and the two images came together.
Part of the magic of writing is when two unalike 'stuffs' come together in a new way. This is part of the art in what sometimes seems (in dark moments) nothing more than a formula. But the same can be said for galaxies, right?
Kissing Mantis
The kissing mantis
waits in spreading dark
To take my hand and
provide wings of a dream
So I might never turn
and see in her mark
My darkened shadow
self’s fading gleam
And as I sweep the seas
in a stellar monsoon
I
spy a long-tressed lady in the starry brine
Smooth strokes of light
shape a lonely moon
Who casts her child
among the stars to pine
And the watery land
below us torridly turns,
Waking and dreaming,
caught in shadowed force
The
veins of a turning
galaxy
that glisten
And the curved arms of
the mantis keep the
course
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