Hello Friends,
Today's poet, Rita Mae Brown, is better known as a novelist. But in 1971 she put out one of the best-titled poetry collections I've encountered: The Hand That Cradles The Rock.
To the best of my knowledge, "promittor" is an astrological term: "In astrology, the planet which promises to produce a particular event upon forming a conjunction, or aspect, with the sun, moon, mid-heaven, or ascendant."
Enjoy.
Ellen
Promittor
Dew falls on the oysters at low tide
And the sea is ablaze with pearls.
I ride a horse to moongate
Where the water's fire
Lights the backbones of prehistoric fish
Tangled in my brain.
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