As
with Death and Being
(in
love),
you
only know it when it comes
close
enough to smell-it gone.
This
doesn't help us.
It
is curious to wonder
why
we still get dizzy
(in
tight circles we spin)
when
this has always been
the
Prime Mover
of
things that (are like) matter.
It
is earthshaking to think all of us
know
something
(is
speaking directly to us)…
As
with Kodiak bears and Great White sharks
act
Bigger and be LOUD-pretend you are more than you are.
We
don't dare admit
this
is not enough.
Survival
is still
just
our luck.
Painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Title: Ulysses Fleeing
the Cave of Polyphemus
“Eckersberg spent 1811
to 1812 in the studio of David, practicing life drawing and history painting.
One of a series of subjects from the Odyssey, this is perhaps the most
compelling. The giant Polyphemus in his cave looms over a sheep, searching for
Ulysses and his companions, who blinded the one-eyed monster. The men have
escaped beneath the bellies of the flock; Ulysses, at the end, prepares to join
his companions. The Mediterranean light is dazzling. We viewers remain
imprisoned in the tenebrous foreground as Ulysses slips away. Eckersberg’s
study of the eloquent contours of Greek vase painting is put to good use here.”
