Dragonish paradigm

Ravenna Diagram, the continuous poem-in-progress, slithers along in its dragonish way through the clouds.  These lines of Stevens' come to mind :

The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.

That master theme of his - to consider the imagination, as it shapes the "First Idea" (or ideas) by which we live, is also an unavoidable subject for me (& any poet)...

How is it that "representative persons" become part of the landscape (seascape?) within which we navigate?  What is this shuttling back & forth between the verbal model, the paradigm, & the actual here-&-now?

The question of the icon or image, & how it might be interpreted...

Confess I'm not saying much here.  Just trying to open a door on this thing, which seems to have its own idiom.

SHY COLOSSUS

In the events all around you

at this moment – like

that cabbage moth taking

a hike around the arugula –

there is one Event, like the breeze

cooling your sultry end-

of-summer haze.  Send

to Gilead for news – release

those carrier pigeons from the rooftops!

Take a message to Garcia!

Summon our immune

militia (Firecracker Pops

& Marty King to lead the way).

None shall die in vain.

The long day wanes.

Like Max in Mexico, the monarchs play

hide-&-seek behind bronze pillars,

Lebanon cedar.

One beloved figure –

footnote painted in a corner –

shy colossus in Rhode Island

pasted with primary

color – Hurricane Mary

(Maggie to her friends) will stand

for every cyclone & dust-storm

of tears.  Here’s looking

at you, kid.  Bring

apples, Rosie... comfort Everyworm.

    9.9.15