This afternoon the southern edge of the pond held clusters of frog eggs. They nestled like black-eyed jewels in the rippling branches of upside-down trees.
Click on image to enlarge. If you look closely, you'll see the black dots inside the eggs, just below the surface of the water (lower left).
So very beautiful - it reminds me of that piece by Escher called Three Worlds where the fish is beneath the reflections on a pond and the floating leaves are above them.
You're exactly right! I used to be hypnotized by that Escher piece. I like that confusion of reflection and reality, then the translation from 3-D to 2-D. And just the intriguing pull of patterns, of course. And that pleasing vertigo. Thanks, Annie.
I'm the author of Stirring the Mirror (2007) and Teaching Bones to Fly (2003), both from Bitter Oleander Press, and Domestic Weather (2004), winner of the 2003 Uccelli Press Chapbook Contest. My writing is anthologized in No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets, PP/FF: An Anthology, Graphic Poetry, Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers, and elsewhere. Additional author information and links to online work are in the sidebar. I'm also a visual artist. Except where otherwise noted, all art and photos are my work and may not be used without permission.
4/17/08: Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY, solo reading at 4:00 PM, free and open to the public
4/10/08: The Pedestal Magazine Poetry Reading featuring Edward Hirsch, with George Wallace, John Amen & CBK, West Side Y, The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, NYC, 8:00 PM
3/14/08: Hudson Valley Writers' Center Poetry Reading with Joshua Mehigan, Marc Straus & CBK, Second Friday Cafe, 7:30 PM
2/28/08: Artists' Salon: An Evening of Reading & Discussion with Riverine Authors, The Muddy Cup Coffee House, Poughkeepsie, NY, 8:00 PM
2/2/08: Stirring the Mirror Book Signing, Bound Off table, AWP Conference, NYC
1/12/08: Riverine Anthology Group Reading, Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring, NY
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So very beautiful - it reminds me of that piece by Escher called Three Worlds where the fish is beneath the reflections on a pond and the floating leaves are above them.
You're exactly right! I used to be hypnotized by that Escher piece. I like that confusion of reflection and reality, then the translation from 3-D to 2-D. And just the intriguing pull of patterns, of course. And that pleasing vertigo. Thanks, Annie.
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