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Site logo image Luisa A. Igloria posted: " Translation of the Latin text at the top of the print: "I begin to blossom gorgeously out of the fluids of disintegration." Translation of the Dutch poem in the lower section: "Secret growth,/ legacy of the night,/ spongily I rise,/ a serene beauty.""

How to Survive a Lightning Strike

Luisa A. Igloria

May 3

Translation of the Latin text at the top of the print: "I begin to blossom gorgeously  out of the fluids of disintegration."  Translation of the Dutch poem in the lower section:   "Secret growth,/ legacy of the night,/ spongily I rise,/ a serene beauty."                                            ~ "Toads tool," M.C. Escher,                                                XXIV Emblemata, 1931    There was the year she mistook  a lump of coal for the light of the moon,  a shiver of fish scales for dowry. There was  the year she lost both the deed to a piece  of land and a name she once thought could be  hers. The bangles women clasped over her wrists  slid into the mud; the chains that corded her neck  rusted in rain. But spores knew how to map the shadow of dead or dying forests— poplar  and pine, elm, ash. They rinsed her hair in the damp,  filtered light of the woods. They took from her mouth  the taste of what she could no longer love, replacing it  first with boils then bird-bills; then showing her  what lightning carved into the bodies of trees.       
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