Shiny green hags, with straggling hair
Was my very first thought.
Then: boils, blisters, balloons.
Then: greasy tendrils of solid smoke
Pouring from tiny amphorae.
Then: I remember Antoine de St Exupéry’s Little Prince
Who glanced at a drawing of a hat
And saw a snake that had swallowed an elephant.
So: I train myself to glance at a shiny green boil
With hag hair and smoky tendrils
To see instead the promise of
Pristine white spider lilies
Waiting to emerge.
I enjoyed reading this post .
Also, could you share your thoughts on, or revelations on Antoine de St Exupéry’s The Little Prince. I wonder a lot on what happened to him in the end :- did he die because of snake bite or what actually happened to him…maybe that’s a mystery for all of us never to be answered clearly … but would love to read more about it through your lens.
So much fun to see through the fine seive of imagination. Just why we read rather than watch as first choice. Scarlet -- brave and outrageously self-soliticitous yet ever caring willing to serve courage as morning coffee when there wasn't any to be had. Yes with youth . . . Gone, now, with an exhaled breath.