Out The Window

La Lunette d'Approche, Rene Magritte

Out the Window 

i.

You tell me I'm blind

but  I see too much.

I see the sea that isn’t there

paws padding over powderblue plains,

pale armadas riding the waves

cargoed with darkness;

the white dead faces of all the past,

their pincers and pins, their coals

for eyes. 

I see no end.

Mujer espiritu de la noche, Remedios Varo

ii.

I tossed up from my heart the garland

 that grew from invisible seed

for the moon-maid to wear in her hair,

saw only her drawn face snow-blinded

saw  ice in her eisenglass stare

ever-dissolving, 

saying

there's no help here,

just the moonmad maenad

with her white teeth that tear.

~March 2013

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Challenge: Words Count with Mama Zen

The ever succinct Mama Zen has asked us to look out of the window and see...darkness.  The trick was keeping it to 50 words--so I cheated and separated my double vision.

Process notes: eisenglass = isinglass, properly, a transparent substance made from the swim bladders of fish used in cooking and parchment repair, but colloquially, a form of mica, per wikipedia:

"Thin transparent sheets of mica called "isinglass" were used for peepholes in boilers, lanterns, stoves, and kerosene heaters because they were less likely to shatter than glass when exposed to extreme temperature gradients. Such peepholes were also used in "isinglass curtains" in horse-drawn carriages and early 20th century cars."





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