In the torso of a great windstorm

Claire Kelly

Odds and Ends, 1939

The wind makes everything alive….

Without movement a subject is dead. Just look!

-- Emily Carr

Put your hand over a flashlight,

watch it glow faerie（仙境） pink. Picture --

lit from inside -- a belly torch,

the backdrop --

knot of spruce（云杉） tree organs: liver, kidneys,

bundle of intestine（肠）, stomach --

cool blue and green foliage hiding enzymes,

bacterium, acids.

That exact texture of pulse,

quiver（颤抖）, musculature connected

and contained, skyline and dirt grouted

together, a vista of

inner skin, the underside.

Airstream gale whipping

the pinprick stars into dashes,

molars into canines（犬齿）, evolution

of the Spartan firmaments. A breezy muse,

that gust of inspiration.

Now look at the actors erect at centre stage, see:

skinny veins with plump tops,

or -- zooming in -- synapses of birch foregrounded.

Holy trifecta（三连胜式）, three ideas

announcing skyward:

home, joy, hunger.