Quo Vadis Maria Infinity?

Maiden's Head, Rosario Beach, Deception Pass Washington

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“Any fool can get into an ocean . . .” By Jack Spicer Any fool can get into an ocean But it takes a Goddess To get out of one. What’s true of oceans is true, of course, Of labyrinths and poems. When you start swimming Through riptide of rhythms and the metaphor’s seaweed You need to be a good swimmer or a born Goddess To get back out of them Look at the sea otters bobbing wildly Out in the middle of the poem They look so eager and peaceful playing out there where the water hardly moves You might get out through all the waves and rocks Into the middle of the poem to touch them But when you’ve tried the blessed water long Enough to want to start backward That’s when the fun starts Unless you’re a poet or an otter or something supernatural You’ll drown, dear. You’ll drown Any Greek can get you into a labyrinth But it takes a hero to get out of one What’s true of labyrinths is true of course Of love and memory. When you start remembering.

 

Thanks for sharing Jack Spicer. He reminds me how fluid things are, of energy flowing, like poems can be, life, love, memory -- not so discrete as we might think. So sometimes we get lost and can drown in it all. So we might want to call on the goddess in us - or something supernatural -- to find our way back. Here is an example from Vimeo . . .





Knowing how to read the tides would be useful for navigating in unknown waters, especially to return in one piece with full memory banks.


The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector. The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion. The stop-motion images were initially painted onto the glass, as silhouettes. A second series of discs, made in 1892–94, used outline drawings printed onto the discs photographically, then colored by hand. Some of the animated images are very complex, featuring multiple combinations of sequences of animal and human movement. -- Wikipedia