Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blessings of grain-stalk and blossom...
...Imagine a painter wants to paint a rather simple, ordinary landscape, say some cherry trees in blossom with leaves and grass and sky and a couple of little clouds and, to balance the sky, maybe a basketball court, and playing on the court are several nuns and one of the nuns is wearing an ape suit with long red fur and spangles-forget that. Now, to get the color of the blossoms, does he go out into the orchard and rip from the tree the blossom and bring it back with him to his atelier...
...there is something near by the blossom, for example, a bee-a bumblebee-which is yellow and black, that is reflected in the blossom. And if, hanging from the anterior, the front end of the bee, is a drop of honey, that also is reflected in the blossom. Now, reflected in the honey is an eagle, and in the mouth of the eagle is a ferret, and in the mouth of the ferret is a stoat, and in the mouth of the stoat is a shrew, and in the mouth of the shrew is a marble, and on the outside...
...square. It was taken when Ranger was still 470 miles away, and Kuiper said that it showed just about as much detail as the best photographs obtainable with the biggest telescopes on earth. Picture by picture, as the spacecraft sped toward the moon, the scene expanded. Craters seemed to blossom on lunar plains that had looked perfectly smooth; in the next pictures even smaller craters appeared...
...resonances somehow develop with rereading. Then Roethke's driest lines can blossom as unexpectedly as the desert cactus. One of his repeated, even self-conscious influences in such passages is Walt Whitman ("Be with me, Whitman, maker of catalogues / . . . the terrible hunger for objects quails me"). But for Roethke, "all finite things reveal infinitude," and . . . if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant...