the remote and familiar land

a host of feelings from early on

but not knowing much about

and neither do they now

maybe in that one book

the detail of an echo

or the echo of a detail

this longish explication

and in life even

of munsalvaesce

in her summer

or what it would be

i've seen versions of 

this story in my life

the sadness in feeling

that one's self 

has a worthlessness

or a value that others

willfully unsee

you've tried to help

a friend that means more

to you than the world

that the world 

as if in a hologram

is one single

sacred friend

who knows you

and maybe she wore

the bathing suit

whose twin rainbow- 

colored unicorns

covered her breasts

in details

there is a dog

sleeping near my feet

or the emerald rajiformes

lead mostly away

from colors

or is it too obscure

to connect the name

of jules verne

with that of the vernier

scale of diffraction

hard to know

things are hard to know

but moments in which

the symbol of knowing

emerges quite on its own

remains a revelation

le rayon vert is a 1986 film 

by eric rohmer 

it was released 

as summer in north america

one summer

or how we fell in love

joseph campbell's

creative mythology

was written in 1968

there is a crowded

host of feelings

from which the innocence

must intent

its unapproachable

and loving creature

and how the creature

is made sure

by the mystery

some summer

lost or regained

must creature intent

upon our grail

and emerald green

how is it to love

this creature