I got fed up with my other version

[sovay]

There are now six monarch caterpillars busily munching through new leaves of milkweed. We planted the irises which were a neighbor's spontaneous gift to my mother on both sides of the front steps. After sunset, we walked through the nearest corner of the Great Meadows and came out into an eerily affluent development with a faint sense of temporal displacement, especially since we had been wandering trails in the woods as the moon rose, naming our path by gates of glacial boulders and birch trees half-ghosting the twilight. We saw a garter snake at the edge of a hollow so dark under its drifted leaves that I thought at first it was still a pool: it lay under the brush like a yellow highway line and looked at us through the clear buttons of its brille and we left it to its night's hunting. My phone was not at all up to the task of capturing a butter-colored half-moon framed in the branches of a clearing, but I like the drowned blue images that spatch caught of me trying. He said it looked like some kind of lunar ritual. We found our way home by an old elementary school and nineweaving sent me Emily Wilson's "Artemis is with us." I wrote a poem about Brauron once. Draw down the moon.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Makes a change from 'drink down the moon' :o)

[sovay]

Makes a change from 'drink down the moon'

Both are always options!

[selkie]

It is a favorite. (Article also v good. Thank you.)

[sovay]

It is a favorite. (Article also v good. Thank you.)

*hugs*

I liked the queer modern Brauronia.

[selkie]

I thought of Child! It seemed to have a lot of their energy. Plus, all their cakes ooze something.

[sovay]

I thought of Child! It seemed to have a lot of their energy. Plus, all their cakes ooze something.

. . . I also thought of their cakes.

[asakiyume]

it lay under the brush like a yellow highway line :-) *love*

The moon was very soft and sweet last night.

I'm envious of your monarch caterpillars. I have bunches of milkweed, but never any monarch caterpillars...

[sovay]

:-) *love*

I had not seen a snake in the wild for some time.

I'm envious of your monarch caterpillars. I have bunches of milkweed, but never any monarch caterpillars...

Look for eggs on them! They are tiny and translucently white. You can bring them inside to keep them from predatory insects and birds.

[asakiyume]

I will look! And if I do find any, I'll do as you suggest.

[drinkingcocoa]

Thank you for this rapturous post! Fun to read Emily Wilson writing about this local camp.

[sovay]

Thank you for this rapturous post! Fun to read Emily Wilson writing about this local camp.

You're welcome! I think it's wonderful that it's local to you. Are/were your kids involved?

[drinkingcocoa]

I asked hopefully every year if they would go, and every year they said they'd prefer to stay home and work on their projects in peace. I was slightly disappointed and also flattered.

[gwynnega]

Yay monarch caterpillars! I look forward to their butterfly-dom.

[sovay]

Yay monarch caterpillars! I look forward to their butterfly-dom.

I will post pictures if I can get them!

[nineweaving]

I love your poem about Brauron, and I think Emily Wilson would too.

Nine

[sovay]

I love your poem about Brauron, and I think Emily Wilson would too.

*hugs*

Thank you.