Nephaster cyaneus (Cloudstar)
1997
Oil on canvas
38 x 51 in.
by J. D. McClatchy
The sudden brightness at a nova's heart
Predicts a gradual, dimming ebb and flow
Of light — or love — that will in time depart,
Remembered only as desire's afterglow.
O dark mysterious flower, guard this night.
Keep her now from morning's cold insight.
Predicts a gradual, dimming ebb and flow
Of light — or love — that will in time depart,
Remembered only as desire's afterglow.
O dark mysterious flower, guard this night.
Keep her now from morning's cold insight.
Another Language of Flowers (New York: George Braziller 1998).
