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.