Rowing Through Wyoming

           

Dedicado al estimado Señor Gilberto Lacayo Bermúdez,

hombre de una visión grande y panorámica--de las ciencias

y las matemáticas a la  filosofía y la poesía.

                 " Portraying the future is a vast and aesthetic 

                   enterprise of amassing beauties--from outer

                   space, from the human soul, from the reflection

                   of sun on water, from the stars, from clouds...".

                                                                        Ivan Yefremov

Eyes that see eons

surf the slow-moving

swells of mountains

thick with fleets of evergreen

marking years and seasons.

In dark valleys below

a mankind of coal,

of steel and steam,

of oil and gasoline,

dreaming electric lights

as stars to the moon.

Have you passed through

Wyoming under water?

Did you see the fishes in the air?

The sharks and coelacanths and water dinosaurs

gliding through the haze like ships of the main?

Did you see the crabs and lobsters?

The anemones and hydras?

As you rowed over the asphalt

in your bathysphere did you see

the trilobites?

E. A. Costa 23 August, 2015 Granada, Nicaragua