the ocean always dreamed blue dreams

I wrote the following with ideas, words and phrases from "Harrison Bergeron," "The Scarlett letter," and "The Most Dangerous Game." I've always loved the name Diana Moon Glompers.

Diana Moon Glompers
was an incomparable beauty
who once came to a crossroads
and chose the one,
that was in the west,
a bloody red

and in the name of equality she
wielded her weapon in favor
of the dull, the average, the ordinary
she took an incomparable delight In
smashing, quashing, suppressing
the extraordinary, the unique, the rare, the remarkable

and then one day, God,
as a direct consequence of her sin,
took away Diana Moon Glompers weapon
and told her she would have to face the world
in lightness, grace, beauty, and
incomparable joy;
that she would, in that transcendent joy,
leap like a deer on the moon,
that her beauty would be that of a pearl,
full of luster and luminescence

and Diana Moon Glompers
stood alone in the world
and watched it grow
in radiance, and beauty, and passion,
in magnificence, and untempered light,
prolific of storm and whirlwind

such was the splendor
of her proper beauty
and the rank luxuriance of the
sprung world around her that
Diana Moon Glompers was silent

“I will not lose my nerve ,” she said.
“I will not.”

Qimissung
June 2010