Sunday, December 23, 2018

Rising from a cocoon of ice


Like a larval stage of Mothra
rising from a cocoon of ice, of glass,
pupae bursting open
a being about to take flight

Shape transcendent
seen on the big screen
replicated in winter
on our driveway

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12/23/18
Rising from a cocoon
#Mothra vs. #Godzilla
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Two sets of images:
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someone put on my image, the following comment:
Looks like feathers coming out of the ice.
I responded:
in the simplest, literal sense, it is a macro photograph of down of the feathers
of some unknown bird caught in a small bit of ice on our driveway maybe about
an inch and a half long; but to me, o my eye, it is reminiscent or evocative of
other imagery, such as a cicada pupa or a larval stage of some moth or other
insect about to burst out of a clear cocoon, partially exposed because of the
feathers being like the wings of a moth, or maybe some sort of fossilized
creature with a spine in the middle of the image right.

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