Hora Vacuui

Dry leaves
Interrupted
With elastic music
Incongruent
Like the way life
Flows
On its own belongs with
Our thinking its about
To happen
Fall through the full
Moon like
The cormorant’s bad dream
The snake’s
On the embankment
Waking deep
Deep fears
Childhood before innocence

Firm ground is not available ground
In the Dunes Archie said.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2022 04:53PM by petersz.

I'm not sure what your references are, Pete, but I enjoyed the read nevertheless.


Les

Les,

I'm referring to:

1, full moon the night it was written

2, I had a bad dream before waking in the morning

3, the bird's dream is of a snake eating its eggs

4, snakes are a primordial symbol in many cultures

5, "Firm ground is not available ground" is the last line of the poem, "Dunes," by Archie, A. R. Ammons.

6, The title, "Hora Vacuui," is Latin for "Fear of Space," the habit is stuff like Byzantines mosaics in which every available space is filled in...no empty spaces.

What might be my own in the poem is.

Cheers,

Peter

Thanks for the background, it adds insight into the poem. I looked up the title, but the rest was a complete mystery.

Les

As is almost anyone's life to someone who was not there, but we pretend we know what others are experience; it adds continuity to our own lives.

Cheers,

Peter

Most of what I know I can't look up.