Night Voices
“To you and your children: stay together learn the flowers go light” -“For the Children” by Gary Snyder What does a little light mean under the rising red moon and the circling stars endlessly reaching for a zenith? Greens yellows ambers blend with moss, they flicker like a great siren over the blackened pond. But what is a waning light – the fireflies ask again – to you and your children? Was that the whispered question of a firefly or a dying star millions of miles away from your mind? Nothing you can touch or take. But here in this muddled weather there is a flash of synchrony when the fireflies entreat you all to join the pattern, to exhale and dance light as a feather: Stay together. And what have you left for any future lights? What shines when the neon nitrogen mercury runs out from your urban utopias - when it has darkened us all, that which you call power. Swim through the pond, they say. Brush the soft algae, inhale the lotus. Let the ...