Reading The Tides: Petroglyph Park

" ... A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun         itself out in his brain ... a promise         that the rock of the world was founded         securely on a faery's wing."         THE GREAT GATSBY         Perceiving the universe         as an orchid stem,         wild hibiscus         crane & heron breaking water          - voyage of elliptical, pea-shaped         canoe down dancing images of         the underworld.         This temperature charged,         climate-controlled glass         geode designed to war on         moss and stone munching         aphid lichens seems everybit as         fanciful as any animal totem.         Grim crevice in the rock         (animistic female orifice)         fertility turtle swollen with         eggs carrying Earth thru         gorged labours of darting         salamander & the spaceman snake.         And coming to that rushing sound,         (subterranean, evocative stream)         or so Algonkians, pensive & puzzled,         paused for a thought encased in         deep, riverine bowels.         Glass slipper, blue guitar          - Silent Lake with something         of wild dimensions in Warsas Caves         (Cyclopean boulders), Serpent Mounds,         this runic enchantment with         glyphs & a cabalistic moon of May.