<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343135" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brought From Beyond</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The magpie and the bowerbird, its odd <br>predilection unheard of by Marco Polo <br>when he came upon, high in Badakhshan, <br>that blue stone’s </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>embedded glint of pyrites, like the dance <br>of light on water, or of angels <br>(the surface tension of the Absolute) <br>on nothing, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>turned, by processes already ancient, <br>into pigment: ultramarine, brought from <br>beyond the water it’s the seeming <br>color of, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>and of the berries, blooms and pebbles <br>finickingly garnishing an avian <br>shrine or bower with the rarest hue <br>in nature, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>whatever nature is: the magpie’s eye for <br>glitter from the clenched fist of <br>the Mesozoic folding: the creek sands, <br>the mine shaft, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>the siftings and burnishings, the ingot, <br>the pagan artifact: to propagate <br>the faith, to find the metal, unearth it, <br>hoard it up, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>to, by the gilding of basilicas, <br>transmute it: O magpie, O bowerbird, <br>O Marco Polo and Coronado, where do <br>these things, these </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>fabrications, come from—the holy places, <br>ark and altarpiece, the aureoles, <br>the seraphim—and underneath it all <br>the howling?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amy+Clampitt">Amy Clampitt</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343135" data-title="Brought From Beyond de Amy Clampitt" data-description="The magpie and the bowerbird, its odd predilection unheard of by Marco Polo when he came upon, high in Badakhshan, that blue stone’s embedded glint of pyrites, like the dance of light on water, or of angels (the surface tension of the Ab..."></div> </div> </div>

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