"The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead."

-W.H. Auden

Sunday, July 29, 2018

Royal Wedding


 In the wee hours of July 29, 1981, crowds had gathered in London to watch the wedding procession of Lady Diana Spencer and the Prince Of Wales. Meanwhile, in the states, I was asleep under the night sky, dreaming of luminous moths in the tall prairie grass.

The image has stayed with me ever since, these unrelated events forever linked in some amorphous fashion.

Occasionally, the mysteries of childhood are fated to remain mysterious.

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