nianeyna: lies: Lines Written in the Days of Growing…
Tuesday, September 15th, 2015lies:
Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness
Every year we have been
witness to it: how the
world descends
into a rich mash, in order that
it may resume.
And therefore
who would cry outto the petals on the ground
to stay,
knowing, as we must,
how the vivacity of what was is marriedto the vitality of what will be?
I don’t say
it’s easy, but
what else will doif the love one claims to have for the world
be true?
So let us go onthough the sun be swinging east,
and the ponds be cold and black,
and the sweets of the year be doomed.— Mary Oliver, from A Thousand Mornings
Photo by Kelly Gardner, Mississippi valley mayfly emergence, July 20, 2014.
OH GOD THOSE ARE BUGS???!?
They are; ephemeral adult stages of mayflies. They spend most of their lives as little crawly larvae in the water, then emerge on a single night to mate, lay their eggs, and die. Here’s the weather radar from the same night showing the mating cloud rising over the Mississippi valley:
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