Some glamorous photos by guest artist John Ianacone feature a carousel and carnival scenes at night -- what do these images conjure in our imaginations? Do we connect them to childhood pleasures or to darker thoughts, perhaps the scenes of a scary film noir classic? More reflections on word and image, at blog.amynelsonhahn.info -- keep clicking those ads, people! THX
Calliope
(for JI)
So little seems left
to ease these staggering hooves
backwards into a dream
nestled on a childhood mantle --
at night they are wild,
and their bitten mouths
champ in a rage
charging across their patterned stage,
as if with their wooden breaths
they would put out every light.
Sultry notes mar their stride,
they falter out of cadence,
break and flicker
and so ends their ride.
Copyright (c) 2012 Amy Nelson Hahn
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