
SELENE
VARIATION
LUNAR CYCLE
DESIGNER
NEELTJE KROMDIJK
IF
THE MOON CAN BE SEEN FROM
THE
EARTH,
IT MUST
BE
PERCEIVED
AS SUCH.
IT'S PHYSICAL BODY LIKE
A
MOTHER.
INTRODUCE
A DISTURBANCE
INTO YOUR
ENVIRONMENT :
AN ASTEROID,
A PEBBLE DROPPED
IN A POND,
A BEAM OF LIGHT
CUTTING THROUGH
TREES,
FROM
WHERE
WE
STAND,
WE SEE HOW IT'S FORM
CHANGES.
RUST-COLOURED
STARS
DANCE IN
SELENE'S GLEAM
PULLS US IN LIKE
JEWELLED INSECTS,
DEVOTED.
I DREAMT
I LOOKED
THROUGH
A TELESCOPE
AND SAW
DISTINCT WAVES
THAT
EBBED AND
FLOWED
IN THE SAME DIRECTION
AS BREATH,
OUR BODY A
MECHANISM TAKEN FOR GRANTED.
AS WE SIT
AROUND THE TABLE TOGETHER,
WE AGREE
THAT WITH
EVERY
THERE COMES RENEWAL.
A RENEWAL THAT IS ELEMENTAL
AND SEEN BY EVERYTHING :
THE DEITIES,
THEIR DRAPED DRESSES, THE LEGENDS BORN IN
COVES,
FLAMES,
US.
IT'S CLOSER THAN YOU MIGHT IMAGINE.
THERE
IS
NO
FANCIFUL
FAIRY TALE TO BE FOUND HERE,
ONLY
BEAUTY
AND
TRUTH
FROM THE SHADOW OF THE MOON THAT MOVES
WITH
YOU,
POEM BY
LUCIA DOVE
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